Word: councill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leading nations of Western Europe cracked a historical nut last week by agreeing to set up a "Council of Europe." The Council is far from, the goal of federation in which the nations would actually yield up some of their sovereignty to a central body. Yet it is a start...
...beginning, Britain, France and the three Benelux nations will compose the Council. Others will be invited to join. The Council will consist of government ministers meeting in secret and a "consultative body" meeting in public. The body of ministers will control the agenda of the lower deliberative chamber, and in general will exercise the real power...
Said a Frenchman who attended the meeting of the five foreign ministers in London that agreed on the new Council: "We did not get exactly what we wanted-an unfettered assembly that could use public opinion to obtain European federation. That would have covered about one-fifth of the way toward federation. What we got in London is about three-quarters of that one-fifth...
Warm afternoon sunshine slanted through the windows of Kingston's 19th Century stone House of Representatives building. In the tiny, paneled chamber, the Opposition representative from East Westmoreland was attacking the land-development policy of His Majesty's Executive Council. In the course of his speech, he referred to Jamaica's Minister of Communications as "good to twist" (Jamaican for corrupt...
Burr was President of the Alumni Association in 1929, Overseer for the term 1931-37, and a member of the Radcliffe Council and the Board of Trustees...