Word: governing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arthur A. Maass, associate professor of Government, opened the meeting by condemning the Republican party's incapacity to govern in a democratic society...
...British method of handling the colonial problem in Singapore, without losing control of the rich commercial port, has been to let the people govern themselves. Singaporeans responded last April by electing a Labor Front government led by a spaniel-eyed criminal lawyer named David Marshall, who campaigned noisily on an anti-British, anticolonial bias, but in office has had to rely on British help to maintain order. In the past nine months there have been 220 strikes in Singapore, mostly Communist-inspired, aimed at crippling the port's economy...
Abba Eban was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1915. He moved on to London in 1922, studied and later taught Arabic, Hebrew and Persian at Cambridge. He once debated the case that the British educational system at Cambridge was insupportable "because it professed to educate a governing class which could not govern." Eban went to the World
...also a fact that the Petrov disclosures had led to no arrests. But to suggest that the word of Moscow should be solicited, let alone be taken seriously, displayed at the least a queer and profound naiveté on the part of a longtime high minister who aspired to govern Australia. It seemed a blunder that could wreck the Labor Party's chances of achieving office for some time to come. At any rate, the issue, all hotted up by Evatt's dealings with Molotov, offered too good an opportunity for the Liberals to pass up. Last week...
...Deputies returned to their constituencies to consider the fate of France's 21st government in nine years. In their absence, Premier Faure, to present returning Deputies with the sense of something being accomplished, pushed and prodded until at last he was able to announce that the long-promised throne council had been set up to govern Morocco...