Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King the choice of abdicating and marrying Wallis or giving her up and remaining King. Winston Churchill took up the King's cause in the Commons, insisting that the government accept a morganatic marriage.* But Churchill misread the mood of the Establishment. His efforts were hotly resented in Parliament, and the Times thundered that the woman the King wanted to marry was not fit to be Queen...
...head of a "government of public welfare," Moise Tshombe has ruled for eight months without the weight of a Parliament around his neck. What with the rebels in the northeast, nearly half the nation under a state of emergency, and much of the rest crippled by anarchy, he would probably be happy to continue governing by decree indefinitely. But African public opinion demands the trappings of democracy, and under the elaborate constitution drawn up last year, Tshombe must call elections before April 1. This week, barely two weeks before the deadline, they begin...
...office he faced a lame-duck Congress, in which his party held a scant 33 of the 192 seats, so few that he was unable to win passage of a single major bill. In the congressional campaign, Frei's party urged the voters to make a Parliament for Frei." At best the experts gave Christian Democrats only 65 seats. There were too many parties, too many local issues to drain away votes...
...embarrassed Labor government in a Windsor-like sequence of events that ultimately stripped Seretse of his chieftainship and forced him into a six-year British exile. Much of the pressure from the Labor side was exerted by then Commonwealth Relations Secretary Patrick Gordon-Walker, who was twice beaten for Parliament within the last year, partly on the color issue...
...slogans were muted. That is the way Eduardo Frei, Chile's new Christian Democratic President, wants it. Next week, when 2,920,000 voters choose a full Assembly and half of the Senate, the issue, as Frei somberly puts it, is whether or not they will "make a Parliament for Frei"-in other words, make it possible to carry out the platform on which he was elected last September...