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...premiership went to Gaullist Lawyer Michel Debré, a relative unknown; for Soustelle there was an agglomeration of odd jobs-including the Sahara. Mockingly, some Frenchmen dubbed Soustelle "the Minister of the Future," and when in last March's municipal elections he failed to win the mayoralty of Lyon-which would have given him a local political power base-many pundits concluded that his star was setting...
...fled the hated republicanism of the new United States and found refuge in Canada-an influx of British stock to an area until then mostly populated by French habitants. In 1837 a brace of piddling rebellions-one led by French-Canadian Louis Papineau, the other by British-Canadian William Lyon Mackenzie-startled London and led to the establishment of "responsible government," with the Canadian colonies handling their own internal affairs through the adoption of the British Cabinet system...
...term British Commonwealth* had been loosely in use for decades, and Britain's Arthur James Balfour, World War I Foreign Secretary, undertook to define it-with help from Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King (William Lyon Mackenzie's grandson). Lord Balfour's report called the Commonwealth "autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another," and united "by a common allegiance to the Crown," as head of the Commonwealth. The 1931 Statute of Westminster removed from Britain the right to withhold consent to laws passed by Dominion Parliaments...
...Identity, fattened a bit by age and apparent prosperity, consists of a set of poems by Lyon Phelps, Harvard Class Poet of some time back, who recently gave a reading at the Poet's Theatre sitting on a stool in the middle of a brass bedstead...
...Marseille, powerful left-wing Socialist Gaston Defferre, who has brought efficiency to his long mismanaged city, won revenge for the loss of his Assembly seat in November by polling more than four times as many votes for mayor as the U.N.R. In Lyon, Jacques Soustelle, the dynamic organizer of the U.N.R., ran a poor third after Radical Socialists and Communists. The one big U.N.R. victor was Jacques Chaban-Delmas, president of the National Assembly, who could point to an outstanding twelve-year record as mayor of Bordeaux...