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...statesman. His mutant career has led through the House of Commons, Fleet Street journalism, television and diplomacy. The son of a well-to-do lawyer, Schoolboy Freeman was converted to socialism by the sight of Depression hunger marchers in 1931. As a young Member of Parliament, he was spotted as a comer by no less a judge than Winston Churchill. But in 1951, he joined another ambitious young Laborite named Harold Wilson in resigning noisily from the socialist administration to protest Britain's rocketing defense spending. In 1955, disenchanted with active politics, he quit the Commons for journalism...
Divided Party. O'Neill himself only narrowly carried the race for a Parliament seat in his own constituency over his opponent, the Catholic-baiting Rev. Ian Paisley. The Unionist Party clung to its lopsided majority in Northern Ireland's House of Commons, but at least twelve of the 36 official Unionist M.P.s are steadfastly against O'Neill, and his efforts to replace a substantial number of them with his own supporters failed completely. Nor did O'Neill succeed in attracting a significant share of the votes of Northern Ireland's Catholic minority. Fed up with...
Great Britain's historical opposition to abortion comes from both common and canon law. In 1803 Lord Ellenborough pushed through a bill to make abortion a crime punishable by death if performed after the fetus had "quickened." In 1837 Parliament revised the law, eliminating the death penalty, but in the process lost the distinction between abortion before and after quickening and consequently outlawed all abortion. A 1929 change made abortion illegal except to save the life of the pregnant woman...
Agitation in Britain for liberalization resulted in bitter debates in both houses of Parliament in 1966 and 1967. The debate culminated last year in the passage of an act that permitted a registered physician to perform an abortion, provided that at least one other physician concurred in his judgment, on any one of three conditions...
...issued a public apology for Dimbleby's "unfortunate and inappropriate" performance and launched "an inquiry into all the circumstances." Dimbleby seemed unperturbed. He said that he had deliberately set out "to get behind the platitudinous surface and pick up the more truthful reality. If the Queen opens Parliament, all right, that's straight ceremony. But when President and Prime Minister meet, it's arrant nonsense that it be treated with deference...