Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Premier, is Théo Lefèvre, burly, beak-nosed boss of the Social Christians. At 47, Lefèvre belongs to a rising new generation of European leaders, is scarcely known outside his own country. A wartime resistance leader, tough, determined Lefèvre entered Parliament at 32 as a fervent royalist. When his party's old guard acquiesced to the Socialists' demand for Leopold III's abdication, Lefèvre organized a "Young Turks" revolt, and took over the party leadership. The oldtimers growled, "Let him break his bones on the job." Instead...
...nagging problem of productivity, asked for standby power to tax companies 4 shillings (56?) per week for each worker they employ, as a means of encouraging them to switch to more efficient, labor-saving machinery. To fight inflation and help bolster sagging exports, the chancellor proposed that Parliament drop the system of fixing excise and purchase taxes by law, leave it to the government to manipulate the rates within limits as it sees fit, raising the taxes when the domestic market is absorbing too many goods better exported, lowering them when the home economy needs a bit of a boost...
Even Verwoerd's own National Party supporters are having their doubts. Cape Town's Nationalist newspaper. Die Burger, has recently veered away from Verwoerd's extremism, argues that coloreds should be represented in Parliament by coloreds. The party's paper in Johannesburg, Die Transvaler, warned fortnight ago that South Africa must change its views about racial questions "or prepare for catastrophe...
Addressing his all-white Parliament in Cape Town in its chamber paneled in stinkwood, Verwoerd described his London trip as a "triumph." and blandly suggested that Macmillan's "strong words" against apartheid had been merely a gesture that Macmillan had been obliged to make in deference to Britain's "quite wrong" policies in its African colonies. What seemed to rankle most was Macmillan's line about the South African flag. Actually, cried Verwoerd. the flag would only be at half-mast if "we had chosen self-destruction and mass suicide." As it was, with South Africa established...
...struggle: his own freedom. Governor Renison -who once described Kenyatta as "a leader to darkness and death"-has agreed to move Jomo soon to a more pleasant location in the Kenya highlands, but still in confinement. In London, British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod backed Renison's stand in Parliament...