Word: commonwealth
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Greece and Turkey still could find no common ground for agreement. Britain, as the third guarantor of the constitution, and the former colonial owner of Cyprus, was the only power with freedom of action. London exercised it wisely. Commonwealth Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys flew to Nicosia for a series of harried interviews with President Makarios, Vice President Kuchuk and the ambassadors from Greece and Turkey. The negotiations nearly collapsed when Makarios announced that Cyprus' treaties with Britain, Greece and Turkey were invalid, which seemed simply the first step in a unilateral attempt to scrap the constitution itself. Yet Sandys...
...though a noisy section of the population is strongly in favor of it. Prime Minister Winston Field urges that "on no account must we put ourselves in the wrong" by breaching the Constitution, under which the territory is still tied to Britain as a self-governing member of the Commonwealth. But Southern Rhodesia, lacking large-scale mineral deposits and heavily dependent on agriculture, is economically depressed and many of its 224,000 white settlers are emigrating, mostly to neighboring South Africa. Many of the remainder seem to be enthusiastically hoping for a political comeback by Sir Roy Welensky as Rhodesia...
...during the 1930s the guards' first chore mornings was spinning the turnstile to build up fictitious attendance. But in the past decade the Tate has pulled ahead fast, and now, under the direction of Sir John Rothenstein, it is the largest and liveliest art museum in the British Commonwealth...
...likes his present role." Although Bridges lives in a modest two-bedroom house with his third wife Noriko, 40, a Nisei, on a salary of $14,040 a year, he nonetheless basks in the welcomes he receives at such, big businessmen's haunts as San Francisco's Commonwealth and Bohemian Clubs...
Widespread discriminatory housing practices continue to occur in Massachusetts despite the Commonwealth's fair housing law, an advisory committee on civil rights charged in a report released yesterday...