Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solitary Confinement. Last May, a few days before the critical referendum which marked the surprise setback of Communism in France, Dewavrin was spirited away to solitary confinement in a Metz Army fortress. The Government's only explanation: Dewavrin had been guilty of "grave administrative faults...
Price of Unity. French Rightists took a different view: the Communists had expected to win last May's referendum and make heavy gains in the succeeding elections. Before taking over key ministries in the Government, they wanted to strip De Gaulle of his most dangerous lieutenant and thereby prevent the possibility of a Gaullist coup d'état to overthrow a Communist-dominated Government. Dewavrin's imprisonment was the Communist price for maintaining shaky tripartite unity in President Félix Gouin's Government...
Every Bulgarian voter received two referendum ballots last week. One bore the national colors with the inscription "For the Republic." The other, unembellished, was inscribed "For the Monarchy." Thus even illiterates could easily understand their patriotic duty. Further moral support was provided by the Red Army. Bulgaria's 37-year-old Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty was all but finished...
...view of "serious irregularities" during the recent referendum (including widespread suppression of Vice Premier Mikolajczyk's Peasant Party-TIME, July 8), the note declared: "[The U.S.] Government wishes to emphasize its belief that, inter alia, it is essential for the carrying out of free elections that 1) all democratic and anti-Nazi parties be allowed to campaign freely without arrest or threat of arrest . . . 2) all such parties are represented on all electoral commissions, and ballots are counted in the presence of [their] representatives . . . 3) results will be published immediately ... 4) there shall be an adequate system of appealing...
...what authority does the current Council limit the right to referendum to those demon reformers who can collect 500 names on a petition? By what right does it limit the powers of proposing and ratifying amendments to its own membership? Merely because 17 members of a Student Council guessed that these provisos were equitable ten years ago? Even then they were not convinced. Reports claim that these back-room sessions were "smoke-filled and heated." But while the document lay on a table in Phillips Brooks House for thirty days, waiting for someone to raise an objection (which would have...