Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state doubted the propriety of attending it as guests of the new regime; others were frankly worried about their safety. Even before the coup, the nine former French African states had refused to come be cause of their antipathy to Red China and Ghana; after the putsch, nine Commonwealth African nations sent regrets. Several other leaders urged strongly that the conference be postponed...
...Ministers of many of those nations were present last week to help the mother of parliaments celebrate her 700th birthday in Westminster Hall. Led by House Speaker Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, in full-bottomed wig, black court gown trimmed in white lace and silver-buckled shoes, speakers from 41 Commonwealth legislatures entered the cavernous, 11th century hall to a flourish of trumpets from the scarlet-clad Grenadier Guards. Then came Britain's Lord Chancellor, his robe brocaded in gold, at the head of a procession of Commonwealth legislators, lace jabots at their throats. Next came the plumed platoon...
...evolution." Nonetheless, Elizabeth pointed out, "its importance to us today is that it stumbled upon and gave expression to ideas and principles which have been recognized and maintained with growing conviction ever since." All the same, the mother of parliaments has brought forth some odd offspring. Among the 21 Commonwealth ministers present, nearly a third came from countries such as Tanzania, Ghana and Malawi, where democracy is about as real as it was in pre-Montfort England...
Nkrumah said he'd be delighted to go, but demanded that Commonwealth-member Australia first withdraw her 900 troops from South Viet Nam. Even Moscow got into the act with an Izvestia editorial that took the Commonwealth to task for a lack of "clarity." After all, the Russians sniffed, how can a fact-finding committee be truly impartial if it doesn't even condemn the U.S. in advance? "There is no demand [in the proposal] to withdraw American troops from Viet Nam," chided Izvestia, "nor to stop the barbarian bombardments of North Viet...
Though Wilson's scheme had the backing of the U.S. and at least tacit support from 16 Commonwealth members, there was more than a little doubt that the mission would get under way next month as Wilson hoped. Even if the Russians ultimately agree to the team's visit, Peking and Hanoi probably will not. Last April, when Wilson's emissary, Patrick Gordon Walker, set off on a similar mission, they would not even receive...