Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arthur, Conservative member of Parliament for the Scot-constituency of Perth and East Perthshire, left the Summer School's International Seminar last and returned to London to vote on a motion of censure introduced against his party by Labour Party leader, Hugh Gaitskell...
Political parties: 2. Voters: 54%. From tribal institutions and British rule, most Ghanaians comprehend representative government, but Moscow-leaning Kwame Nkrumah misrules country as autocracy. Opposition has only eight members in 112-seat Parliament, many more are in jail...
...party slips still farther in three by-elections scheduled for fall, Macmillan may be forced to resign, though few top Tories are now betting on his early retirement. After Parliament recesses this week, Macmillan will leave for Yorkshire's grouse moors. There, as his foes know well, a few days of nonpolitical bloodletting usually work wonders for Uncle Harold...
...first, Melbourne dabbled reluctantly in politics. He much preferred books and parties. But at 51, after several torpid years in Parliament, he was brought into a Whig Cabinet as Home Secretary. He snapped out of his indolence by harshly putting down hunger riots in the south of England. "I like what is tranquil and stable,'' he announced, and achieved tranquillity by hanging several of the leaders. He scoffed at earnest middle-class reformers, once received a group of them lounging on his sofa. While they talked, he pulled a feather out of a pillow, began to blow...
Broadcast live by the Educational Radio Network, the seminar featured speeches by French and Swiss journalists and a member of the German Bundestag, followed by comments by the Secretary General of Belgium's Christian Socialist Party, a Conservative member of the British Parliament, and a First Secretary in Sweden's Ministry of Finance...