Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that our friend Haile Selassie is back on his throne as Emperor of Ethiopia, Power of Trinity I, King of Kings, Elect of God, Light of the World and Conquering Lion of Judah, he has renewed his TIME subscription and sent us a check for $38.90 so we can air mail the next 26 issues...
...French voters will elect a National Assembly. Through a referendum they will also answer two key questions: 1) Shall the new Assembly draft a constitution for a Fourth Republic? 2) If so, shall the Provisional Government (presumably De Gaulle's) continue to exercise full power while the constitution is being drafted...
...local regimes and a Bavarian provincial administration. The emphasis was on "denazification." Political parties, trade unions, and political meetings (which the Russians encouraged) were forbidden. Now that has been changed. And last week General Dwight D. Eisenhower told the press: Germans in towns and rural areas will elect local officials of their own choosing before winter. In the British zone, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery said: "We aim at the restoration of local self-government throughout Germany on a democratic basis." But the western Allies had nothing to compare with Russia's new German government which, at least...
...somewhat more massive corpse was the Liberal Party, which, caught in Labor's bloody angle, lost seven of its 18 parliamentary seats, and failed to re-elect its leader, Sir Archibald Sinclair, its president, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, or its most celebrated candidate, Social Planner Sir William Beveridge...
Among the political small fry, the Communist Party could claim a 100% parliamentary gain. For its traditional lone M.P. William Gallacher, it had managed to elect a comrade, Philip Piratin...