Word: parliament
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...Jamestown. On Sunday, Elizabeth and Philip attended services at Ottawa's old Christ Church Cathedral; there Philip read the Parable of the Talents to an overflowing congregation. This week Elizabeth would open the Canadian Parliament (the first time a reigning monarch had performed this act), then fly to Jamestown, Va. for a ceremony marking the 350th anniversary of the founding of North America's first permanent English-speaking colony. Afterward, with Prime Minister Diefenbaker acting as the Queen's senior adviser, she and Philip would visit President Eisenhower in Washington. Before returning home to London, they also...
Occasion for the argument: the Church Meeting of the state Lutheran church of Sweden, considering a proposal to permit women ministers. Two years ago the Swedish Parliament recommended ordination of women (at the time, one diehard stormed that he would never confess* to a female because women were notoriously unable to hold their tongues...
Silence in Church? From Swedish women, accustomed to equality (only military service, the ministry and the governorship of counties still are banned to them), there came immediate and bitter reaction. By last week some 75 women - among them: 53-year-old Member of Parliament Sigrid Ekendahl, 47-year-old Agda Rossel. delegate to the U.N. Commission for Women's Rights -had declared themselves no longer members of their church. (Since 1952 Swedes have been permitted to leave the state church merely by signing a form stating their intention.) Leader of the women's protest was Esther Lutteman...
...dispute in the dusty Ashanti capital touched a crucial Commonwealth question, a question of which Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies observed recently: "Perhaps we do not always understand that 'the rule of law' and 'the rule of Parliament' can be separately stated in words but are not easily separated in fact. Self-government is not only a political conception. It is a legal conception. In short, I don't believe there can be any form of parliamentary self-government without a recognition of the rule...
...good people of San Marino made the mistake of electing a Communist and left-wing Socialist majority to their local Parliament, the Grand Council. Heady with power, the nation's new rulers took over with an impressive program of local improvements, including nationalization of the nation's only two factories, which both manufacture ceramic souvenirs for the tourist trade. But the new deal never quite came off. One by one the Red faithful left the fold. Three weeks ago San Marino's Demo-Christian minority leader suddenly woke up to the fact that his party now commanded...