Word: ministership
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...Parliament last week, Winston Churchill finessed rather than faced the hottest critical barrage of his Prime Ministership. Called for an accounting on the subjects of the loss of Crete and weaknesses in Britain's wartime economy, the foxy Prime Minister insisted that, since Parliament had forced the debate on him, he be allowed to speak last. His discombobolated, angry critics thereupon found themselves debating without any facts to debate about...
...irritation of his friends), nobody in Britain thinks the two men can share the same political bed long without somebody's landing on the floor. Churchill is probably biding his time, and last week Winston and Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax were even bets for the Prime Ministership, if Chamberlain should...
...ideal figurehead, never more so than now as it faces an oncoming national election. MacDonald, however, is far from well. Over & over the Conservatives have prepared the voters for MacDonald's final fade-out by slipping out rumors that he was about to resign the Prime Ministership to Stanley Baldwin. Last week the chorus of rumors swelled, picked out a definite date, the Whitsuntide Holiday, June...
...State Department, who knows China from Szechwan to Kirin (California to Maine) and speaks Chinese as fluently as he speaks English. For he had long advocated giving China an embassy. Only consolation he had last week was that he would probably be upped from a $12,000 ministership to a $17,500 ambassadorship...
Pleased indeed must have been Chief Harrison with his appointment. He had resigned his ministership because he could not find for rent a suitable house for his family in Montevideo. He can now live in Washington where many a comfortable house awaits a tenant...