Word: commonwealth
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Knox Fellowship winners study in a university in any British Commonwealth country that still recognizes the sovereignty of the queen...
...foreign policy, Wilson veered a bit closer to the Common Market, with a statement that his government "would be ready to enter the European Economic Community provided essential British and Commonwealth interests were safeguarded." His Common Market pronouncements during the election campaign had baldly demanded that British conditions for entry-such as freedom to purchase wheat and sheep from Canada and Australia without import levies-be met before he would consider membership. Then came the little firecracker that almost everyone expected, even though many wondered why it should be lighted...
...debate on the Queen's Speech. To prepare for the wrangles to come, Heath trimmed his shadow Cabinet from 22 to 17 members, scrapping the last vestiges of ex-Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home's influence. Out to the back benches went former Ministers Duncan Sandys (Commonwealth and Colonies), Ernest Marples (Transport), Selwyn Lloyd (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and two others. Lloyd will aid Heath in reorganizing the Conservative Party at its weakest point-in the Labor-eroded northwest...
Significantly, Heath retained Reginald Maudling as Deputy Opposition Leader and added to his stock by giving him the Commonwealth and Colonies shadow portfolio. That gives Maudling responsibility for Rhodesia-a fulcrum that any oppositionist should be able to wield to advantage. If Heath and Maudling together can put the full weight of Tory leadership into the opposition, Wilson's plump majority could be thinned in ensuing by-elections. If not, Heath might well be supplanted by Maudling as the Conservatives' leader...
...consider the most effective remaining alternative: legislating the repeal of the oath by mobilizing sentiment on campuses throughout Massachusetts. If they sincerely believe that the loyalty pledge represents a threat to academic freedom, they should extend the campaign through petition from Harvard and M.I.T. to other colleges across the Commonwealth...