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Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's government and his Conservative Party lay in shambles. Triggered by a bluntly undiplomatic U.S. note accusing Canada of reneging on its nuclear defense commitments, a rebellious Parliament shot down Diefenbaker's minority government on a vote of no confidence. And then, as he faced an election on April 8. several of Diefenbaker's key Cabinet ministers and some of his staunchest supporters turned against...
Plainly in trouble, Diefenbaker paid two visits to Canada's Governor-General -and insiders said it was to obtain the formal permission he needed to dissolve Parliament and call new elections. Whether he dissolves Parliament or tries to weather a vote of noconfidence, he will probably have to face new elections soon...
Last week England made a sensitively fraternal gift to Fulton. The Anglican Diocese of London agreed to give Westminster the bombed-out remains of the church of St. Mary Aldermanbury. If Parliament and the London County Council approve, the church will be dismantled stone by stone, rebuilt at Fulton with a new interior based on Wren's designs, and renamed the Churchill Memorial Chapel. Cost: about $1,000,000, hopefully to be raised by subscription...
Pleasures of Parliaments. In his greatest work, Namier demolished the long-accepted interpretation of 18th century English politics. Englishmen had been taught that the noble heroes of Parliament had battled wicked King George III to preserve English liberties. Namier sifted speeches of the period, records, diaries and letters. When he was stumped by the character of a Parliamentarian, he consulted a psychoanalyst. He finally gathered all his biographical sketches into two massive volumes, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III and England in the Age of the American Revolution, which proved that there had been no ideological...
...Crossroads of Power. In the first of these, he pleads for more study of the common men, who, he contends, shed more light than popular heroes on the life of the times. He proves his point with some engaging, subtle portraits. There was Daniel Pulteney, who went into Parliament to gain immunity from arrests for debts and stayed to poke fun at the pretensions of his fellow M.P.s. There was Charles Townshend, the erratic M.P. who did as much as anyone to precipitate the American Revolution, by imposing the onerous Townshend duties on the colonies. Namier traces his troubles...