Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular in the Egyptian streets. His government had overcome the emergency of its Sinai defeat, but had not yet tackled its immense long-term problems (the economy is stagnant, and overcommitted-by as much as 37% of its foreign trade-to the Soviet bloc). Addressing his new one-party Parliament early in the week, Nasser seemed almost too subdued to be true. He summarized his regime's homefront achievements ("Our greatest gain is hope"), and bore down on the need to "build, build, build, to make up for the past, to face the future." Said Nasser: "We must always...
...France and West Germany). "We cannot compromise the historic prospects for Europe,'' argued Nenni. Pro-Communist leaders complained that this would reinforce "the aggressive North Atlantic military bloc." After a tough three-day battle Nenni accepted a compromise solution by which his Socialists would vote in Parliament for Euratom, but abstain on the Common Market. When proCommunists still insisted on voting against both treaties, Nenni threatened to resign. With elections coming up next year and no leader of his Stalin Prizewinning stature in sight, the leftist Socialists approved Nenni's handwritten resolution, 59 to 13. This proves...
Prime Minister Diefenbaker, 61, is a Saskatchewan lawyer who lost five elections before he finally reached Parliament at the age of 44. An unknown who won leadership of the minority Tory Party last December mostly because his demoralized colleagues thought he could lead the way honorably to inevitable defeat, he instead took the party to victory by an exhausting personal effort. He knows, likes and respects the U.S. But his brow darkens and he grows snappishly critical at even such a small economic friction as last month's unloading of low-priced U.S. turkeys onto the Ontario market. Dulles...
...florid Victorian style by speaking from a stage while an uncle listened critically from the back of an empty auditorium. Moving on to the University of Saskatchewan, young Diefenbaker joined the ranks of the campus apprentice politicians who ran the debating society, heatedly argued national issues in a mock Parliament. He devoured political biographies (a special hero: Lincoln), won better-than-average marks and a forecast in the college magazine The Sheaf that he would some day lead the opposition in the House of Commons in Ottawa...
Guided Democrat. At home, the quarreling and corruption of Indonesian politics irritated him. The yes men who surrounded him in his nation's first days turned to no men once they were elected to the newly formed Parliament and owed their power to him no longer, but to the electorate. Sukarno disowned even the Nationalist Party which originally was his creation. Only one group stayed slavishly loyal to him, no matter what he said-the Communist Party, which also escaped the brunt of his corruption charges for the reason that it has never been in the Cabinet. When Sukarno...