Word: queen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commons, flatly warned the Cabinet that he could not guarantee the support of Tory right-wingers if Makarios were released on these terms. The Marquess of Salisbury, 63-year-old scion of the Cecil family, who have advised England's monarchs since the days of the first Queen Elizabeth, was even more adamant. Inflexibly, the tough-minded elder statesman pointed out that Makarios had "deliberately refrained" from meeting Britain's conditions for his release. To free the Archbishop now, he insisted, would be an act of disloyalty to Turkey, a trusted ally who had stood by Britain throughout...
...allies ever since 1938 when Salisbury, along with Anthony Eden, resigned from Neville Chamberlain's government in protest at British appeasement of Mussolini. When Suez and ill-health drove Eden from No. 10 Downing Street last winter, it was Salisbury, together with Sir Winston Churchill, who persuaded the Queen to name Macmillan Prime Minister instead of "Rab" Butler (who had once supported Chamberlain's appeasement...
...Peers Necessary? Amid the pomp and panoply of Queen Elizabeth's coronation, the heir to the newly created (1945) Altrincham barony openly questioned the usefulness of an upper house filled with legislators "not necessarily fitted to serve in Parliament." Soon afterward, demanding the admission of women to the clergy, he turned his barbs against England's men of the cloth, declaring that "it can no longer be presumed that a parson will even be respected as a man, let alone revered as a priest." More recently, Altrincham's ire was directed against Tory Anthony Eden...
...Lord Offside? Lord Altrincham's indignation was the greater because, he wrote, "The Queen and the Queen Mother are patrons of the league, and Princess Alice is its president." To drag in royalty this way, commented the admiral, is "a pretty rotten thing. Definitely offside...
...rules of the romantic comedy game, as played by Hollywood, are at least as irrational as those that Lewis Carroll dreamed up for the Queen's croquet. But in the last 14 years, by playing cleverly to the rules, and even more cleverly breaking them, Director Vincente Minnelli has turned out half a dozen of the pleasantest comedies and musical comedies (An American in Paris, Father of the Bride) made in Hollywood since the '30s. And in Designing Woman, restricted still further by a plot that should have gone down the drain with bathtub gin, Director Minnelli...