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Late last week, protesting bitterly at "the campaign of vilification and slander against me." Ali resigned both the premiership and his membership in the Moslem League. Pakistan President Iskander Mirza, announcing that he wanted time to review the play up to that point, asked Ali to remain on the job temporarily. At week's end Mirza was still deep in review and looking for a ball carrier...
...some instability in the American form of government that such a happening can create such a fluttering on the stock exchanges of the country. The long-drawn-out illness of the late King George VI and the frequent illnesses of Sir Winston Churchill in the latter years of his Premiership caused no stir whatsoever in the British stockmarkets. Doesn't this point to the urgent need of a reappraisal of the functions of U.S. government and those of the Chief of State...
...hour after the polls closed on election night last week, it was clear that Quebec's Premier Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis had made Canadian political history. He had won an unprecedented fifth term as premier of Canada's biggest province, and he had stretched his potential premiership to a record 20 years. Against the best-organized opposition he ever faced, Strongman Duplessis had come back more powerful than ever, with a greater share of the popular vote and a massive majority of 72 seats (an eight-seat gain) in the 93-seat legislature for his Union Nationale Party...
...elections, government leaders were disturbed by the fact that the Chamber now includes 47 Communists, a gain of about 40 seats. Determined not to let the Reds gain by political means what they failed to win by force, U Nu's colleagues agreed to let him leave the premiership "for a year" to devote all his time to political reorganization of the Anti-Fascist League...
...General (ret.) Kazushige Ugaki, 87, onetime (1925-31) War Minister of Japan, Foreign Minister (1938), Governor General of Korea (1931-36), member of the Japanese Diet since 1953; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. Acting on the Emperor's mandate in 1937, peace-minded Ugaki made a stab at the premiership, was blocked by rightist warlords who distrusted him for shearing the army of four divisions...