Word: mintoffs
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...existence of NATO was a reminder that the days of British naval supremacy, and possibly dockyards, were over. Politically-minded Maltese talked of revolution and self-government, but a better idea came up: Why not put a clove hitch in the British umbilical? Last week Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff and a delegation of Maltese went to London for a round-table conference with a group from the Mother of Parliaments, and put the idea to the British M.P.s in specific terms: make Malta an integral part of the United Kingdom (like Northern Ireland...
...Mintoff proposed that Malta have elected representatives in the British Parliament, pay taxes on the British scale and share welfare state benefits. He also wanted economic integration-but this to come gradually over 15 or 20 years. With Mintoff sat a delegation of his political opposition, who also had come to the conference to lobby for a closer tie 'to Britain ; they preferred complete self-government within the Commonwealth...
...delegation of Maltese, headed by 38-year-old Prime Minister Dom Mintoff, was in London last week buttonholing top officials in both British parties. Their goal was to secure seats in the British House of Commons, just like Northern Ireland, which has a government of its own along with representation in the British Parliament. Mintoff also wanted his people (pop. 320,000) to be cut in on the Welfare State...
Such complete integration is an old dream of young Prime Minister Mintoff, son of a onetime British navy cook stationed at Malta's dockyard. A Rhodes Scholar and civil engineer, ambitious young Mintoff has been a leader in Malta's Labor Party since 1936, and Prime Minister since last March. "If I fail in this," he said last week, "I shall resign, and the others will have to govern Malta as best they...
Faced with the startling notion of accepting a distant relative as an intimate member of the family proper, Britain has tried to allay Malta's demands with a vague plan for government through the Home Office instead of the Colonial Office, but Mintoff will not be fobbed off. "We are prepared to accept all the facts that you accept here in Britain-taxation and all the rest," he told officials last week, "but we can no longer be just a naval base. We are a mature people who want our full constitutional rights, and you cannot treat...