Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government, the eleven main islands are gradually getting more freedom from Britain in local affairs. This week a big helping of self-government goes to Barbados, sugargrowing "little England" of the West Indies, where for 300 years a select "plantocracy" has run the British Commonwealth's third oldest Parliament (after Britain itself and Bermuda). Governor Sir Robert Arundell will hand over part of his remaining powers to Barbados' first Cabinet, bossed by Socialist Prirne Minister Sir Grantley Herbert Adams...
...other islands once federation begins working. Adams will be among the top three men in the dominant Federal Labor Party, along with Jamaica's Norman Manley and Trinidad's Eric Williams. But he plans to stick to his local job. "If I went to the federal Parliament," he says, "I would be betraying Barbados...
Indonesia last week had two Presidents. One was Parliament Speaker Sartono, who was sworn in as Acting President before a heavily guarded convocation of Djakarta dignitaries, and the other was President Sukarno himself, who kept saying he was going off to India for a rest cure, though he seemed more interested in hanging around to see how the Acting President would make...
...opposition cheered. Heavy glass ashtrays were pounded on the tables. Fights broke out among the spectators. Strong-armed police hustled the brawlers outside. But his opponents cheered too soon. The mayor, continued the council president, was resigning only to announce his candidacy for a seat in Italy's Parliament...
...Honorable members," pleaded the speaker of Ghana's Parliament in the midst of a sudden outburst of anger on the floor, "let there be harmony in this House." Ghana's legislators were debating the Emergency Powers Bill by which the increasingly highhanded government of Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah pro posed to arm itself with virtually dictatorial powers in case of a too-militant opposition. Time and again in the course of the two-week debate, shouts and catcalls, taunts and insults were hurled across the floor...