Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state must have a head, that is, a leader in whom the nation could see beyond its own fluctuations, a man in charge of essential matters and guarantor of its . It was also necessary that this executive, destined to serve only in the national community, not originate in the parliament which united the delegations of particular interests...
...NATO, refused to accept the vote as official Labor policy or as binding on him, argued that only the party's elected representatives in Par- liament could finally speak for the Labor Party. He insisted that the "Parliamentary Party," which is British shorthand for all Labor Members of Parliament, still backed him and his policy of maintaining the nuclear deterrent in alliance with the U.S. and NATO...
...shattered party then adjourned its fight to Parliament, where Unilateralist Sydney Silverman warned Rab Butler, Conservative House leader, that Gaitskell "doesn't speak for his party in defense matters." Happily, Butler agreed that the Tories would take into account whatever "Hydra-headed arrangements may emerge." Their tempers already short from the intraparty fight, leftist Labor M.P.s exploded last week when Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced that Britain had agreed to allow the U.S. to use the port of Holy Loch on Scotland's Firth of Clyde as a base for Polaris submarines. In describing the agreement, Macmillan stretched...
...possibility that Algeria would choose union with France. To the open threats of some army officers that they will revolt if Algeria is lost, De Gaulle replied that he would call a popular referendum, if necessary, to put through his Algerian decision. More than that, he threatened to dissolve Parliament and, as a last resort, take up the dictatorial powers open to him under his constitution's Article 16 if extremists stand...
...most frustrated man in Manhattan last week was the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold. His Congo command, having backed all the main antagonists into corners, now seemed to be in full charge in Leopoldville, yet was powerless to create the solution it wanted. To bring back Parliament would probably be tantamount to re-electing the erratically irresponsible Patrice Lumumba; it might also send Colonel Joseph Mobutu's ragtag army up in flames. Besides, President Joseph Kassvubu was dead against it. To prop up Mobutu would incur the wrath of many of the U.N.'s African member nations...