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...least two other historical gaffes. Speaking of Chancellor Adenauer, he said: "Two years after his birth [in 1876], General Custer and 500 of his cavalry were to be wiped out by Sitting Bull and the Sioux Indians." Custer actually made his last stand in 1876. Later, addressing the Irish Parliament, Kennedy presented the Irish Republic with a Civil War battle flag of the Irish Brigade. The brigade, said he, fought at Fredericksburg, Md., on Sept. 13, 1862. The date was actually Dec. 13, 1862. And it was Virginia, not Maryland. The Gaelic spelling of the name. This version...
...been meted out for monny a year lang syne, but the Scots' ancient law is still on the books. Last week, along with 166 other cobwebbed statutes adopted by the Scottish kingdom before it joined England in 1707, the law was being repealed in the British Parliament...
After Christine failed to appear as a witness last March in the trial of a jealous Negro lover who had tried to shoot her, questions were finally raised in Parliament. Macmillan asked for action, admittedly hoping for a statement from Profumo that would quell further rumors in the press through fear of libel. When the House adjourned after midnight, Profumo was awakened, and at 1:30 a.m. came to Chief Tory Whip Martin Redmayne's Commons office with his solicitor. He was confronted by Redmayne, Tory Chairman Iain Macleod, Minister without Portfolio William Deedes, Attorney General Sir John Hobson...
...progressive political and social views were inspired by Don Luigi Sturzo, a near-legendary priest and sociologist who was one of the founders of Italian Christian democracy. Until Mussolini's Fascism put an end to free political action in Italy around 1924, Giorgio Montini served three terms in Parliament as a member of Don Sturzo's Popular Party...
...King-belatedly-against a planned state visit to Britain in July. There might be similar incidents during the trip, he said, and the Greek rightists, resenting left-wing attacks abroad, might make trouble, too, as they did in Salonika recently, where a left-wing member of the Greek Parliament was killed. The King's plaintive rejoinder was that he had accepted the invitation long ago and it would be ungentlemanly to back out now. The British had promised adequate security. Besides, he did not want to appear to give in to pressure from the left. King Paul was reinforced...