Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brief Encounter. As Tronfolger, Margrethe can now act as regent during her father's absences, with "the prerogative of mercy and granting amnesty" and, when Parliament is not sitting, of calling the nation to arms against any foreign invader. But beyond learning her official duties and finishing her education, her chief worry during the next years will be to find a suitable consort. At a ball last fall, the royal court thought for a moment that she might have found one when she insisted on dancing every waltz with a handsome teen-aged count. Unhappily, the waltzing gave...
...family textile business until World War II, he helped plan the costly Arnhem operation and, at 44, insisted on going along. Breaking a thigh in jumping, he was captured, went home on crutches from a German prison camp at war's end in time to run for Parliament. He felt a family obligation to run because a young, politically promising cousin had been killed in the war. His personal diffidence won him respect in the House; his shrewd advice on business affairs won him esteem in the City. At the Ministry of Agriculture he managed to achieve a success...
...China and all the Communist satellites followed suit in boycotting the Ljubljana meeting. In isolation but still firmly in control of his own show, Tito last week allowed himself to be unanimously re-elected President of Yugoslavia for a third term of four years. In a speech before Parliament, the 65-year-old Tito tried hard to stay on his tightrope between East and West; he followed the Soviet line on ending nuclear bomb tests, and, in the next breath, praised the U.S. for the economic and military aid it has sent to Yugoslavia...
...Todd's successor the party picked Sir Edgar Whitehead, 53, the Federation's Minister in Washington, an Oxford-educated moderate whom no one had tarred with the label of "too liberal." Since Whitehead was not a Member of Parliament and could serve only four months as Prime Minister without being elected an M.P., the party shopped around for a safe seat, picked Hillside, a suburb in Southern Rhodesia's second city of Bulawayo...
...Todd gone, was pushing partnership "too far and too fast." Betting odds favored Whitehead 4 to 1, but when the votes of Hillside were tallied last week, the result was: Pain, 691; Prime Minister Whitehead, 604. A grim and grey-faced Whitehead promptly ordered dissolution of the Southern Rhodesia Parliament and new general elections in June. His defeat was widely taken as proof that South African-style ideology has at last established a beachhead north of the Limpopo...