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...word-non. When the Deputies presented their petition, signed by a majority of 287, De Gaulle rejected it with cold contempt. The Deputies, he said, had acted under pressure of the farm lobby, "lacking all qualifications and all political responsibility." A special session of Parliament, Charles de Gaulle wrote to the Assembly president, would not "be compatible with the orderly functioning of the public powers, which I am charged with assuring...
Flushed and angry, Belgium's Foreign Minister Pierre Wigny rose in Brussels' Parliament chamber with a sharp official reply. France, he explained, had pulled out an almost forgotten agreement dating back to 1884, when the race for territory in Africa was hot, claiming it still had a "right of preference" on the Congo if Belgium should ever decide to dispose of territory in it. This, said Wigny indignantly, might have applied in the 19th century, "but today territories and their inhabitants are no longer goods that can be the object of international trade." In Paris, French officials sought...
...member of his Cabinet has ever set foot in the Negro-ruled new states of Africa, but this does not prevent South Africa's confident Prime Minister from speaking for the millions who populate them. "The mass of Africans do not want independence," he assured his Parliament last week. "They are just being used by a few small groups [of Africans] who are really considering their own interests." In the same building six weeks before, Britain's Harold Macmillan had warned of the "wind of change" sweeping the continent and of Britain's sympathies with nationalist aims...
Only four days before Mauker's strafing, Sukarno had suspended the 257-man Indonesian Parliament, thus removing the nation's last vestige of constitutional democracy. Through his tame Supreme Advisory Council, Sukarno ordered sweeping land-reform measures, directly threatening the vast plantations producing rubber, palm oil, tobacco, tea, sugar and coffee chat have been in foreign hands for decades. It was an action that seemed certain to depress even further the nation's faltering economy (the Indonesian rupiah stands at 450 to the dollar on the free market, as opposed to a "legal" value...
Brilliant Bully. By this editorial principle, Harris raised News circulation from 7,000 to 70,000. He gained social standing of a sort by marrying a wealthy widow, whom he made poorer but no happier. He stood for Parliament as a Conservative but ruined his chances by making a speech on the merits of mistresses for M.P.s. By borrowing right and left, Harris managed to buy a literary weekly, the Saturday Review, tossed out its old staff, and before long had a roster of contributors including Shaw, H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling...