Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Minister Macmillan there was nothing to do but fire off a cable to Lloyd assuring him of full support and confidence, and in Parliament to remark carefully in passing that "the Foreign Secretary and I hope to carry on our work together for a long time...
...eyes were on Lieut. General Abdul Haris Nasution, army chief of staff, who led an abortive revolt against Parliament in 1952, might do so again. Hardworking, anti-Communist General Nasution proclaimed a ban on all political activity "until further notice," and, to protect the boss, ordered that no newspaper be allowed to publish pictures showing Sukarno kissing anyone, since public kissing is offensive to many Moslems...
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker last week chose a longtime political intimate to take Canada's foreign affairs portfolio. The new Minister is Howard Charles Green, a Conservative Member of Parliament since 1935 and-since the 1957 Tory victory-leader of the House, Minister of Public Works, and deputy Prime Minister. Three times he served as Diefenbaker's alter ego when the P.M. was abroad...
Early in Queen Victoria's long reign. Sir Benjamin Hall, her Chief Lord of Woods and Forests, promised Britain's Parliament "a king of clocks, the biggest and best in the world, within sight and sound of the heart of London." He kept his promise grandly. London's great Westminster clock was soon overseeing London's pace, keeping accurate time within a tenth of a second a day; one of its few respites from clockwork occurred in World War II when its works were shaken during a German air raid. One morning last week, when...
...only British subjects-which automatically included everyone born in Singapore-could cast a vote. Under the new constitution voting is compulsory for all, and the ballot is thrown open to hundreds of thousands of Chinese born outside Singapore, most of whom are unable to speak English. In the new Parliament, in fact, English will cease to be the official language and members may debate in English, Malay, Mandarin Chinese or the Tamil language of India...