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...Peers Necessary? Amid the pomp and panoply of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, the heir to the newly created (1945) Altrincham barony openly questioned the usefulness of an upper house filled with legislators "not necessarily fitted to serve in Parliament." Soon afterward, demanding the admission of women to the clergy, he turned his barbs against England's men of the cloth, declaring that "it can no longer be presumed that a parson will even be respected as a man, let alone revered as a priest." More recently, Altrincham's ire was directed against Tory Anthony Eden...
Patrick H. B. Wall, a Conservative member of Parliament, will speak this morning at 11:00 in Room One, Shannon Hall, on the Middle Eastern situation, under the auspices of the Army ROTC Battalion. Wall is a member of the British Foreign Policy Committee...
With an assist from Nehru, who stumped the "safe" district of North Bombay on his behalf, even V. K. Krishna Menon, the sharp-tongued bane of the U.N., won a seat in Parliament. By week's end, with millions of votes still uncounted, the Congress Party held solid majorities in 9 of 13 state assemblies and had won three times as many parliamentary seats (174) as its opponents combined...
...Java-Centric." First of all. President Sukarno was eager for the government to take in the Communists, who held 39 seats in Parliament. Second, local politicians and military commanders all over the Indonesian string of 3,000 islands accused the government of being "Java-centric." Java, site of the capital city of Djakarta, has two-thirds of the country's population. But though Java accounts for only 17% of Indonesia's exports, it gobbles up a disproportionate slice (73%) of its imports. Sumatra, on the other hand, contributes 72% of Indonesia's exports in return...
There are many causes behind the government's constant frustration and failure to produce effective policy. Basically, the difficulty arises from the absence of any potential majority in the electorate which necessitates an artificial coalition majority in parliament. These coalitions, with their tenuous alliances and uneasy combinations, tend to be unstable. Dissention often arises within the coalition, each group adhering rigidly to its principles, unwilling to sacrifice its standards to the cause of effective government. Consequently, major problems are shelved for fear of upsetting the coalition's balance, and vital programs collect dust for lack of Cabinet cohesion...