Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote showed a surprising docility among Labor M.P.s, some of whom were rumored earlier to be urging Sir Stafford Cripps to resign his War Cabinet post in protest against Tory policies. It came a few days after 56 prominent Britons had signed a 400-word appeal to liberal, able Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar ("C. R.") urging him to form a national Government. C. R. flatly contradicted a recent Cripps statement that Gandhi had personally aborted an attempt at an Indian settlement last spring. Of the Secretary of State for India's speech, Rajagopalachariar said: "The drift is far too perilous...
...Writer J. B. Priestley, rich and liberal Sir Richard Acland and socialist M.P. Vernon Bartlett. the Common Wealth is demanding that one-third of the House of Commons resign and stand for re-election...
General Somoza's highly sensible plan calls for a common currency, a single flag, a common customs union, a federal army and a federal congress. With a typical Central American gesture, he offered to resign as president "at any time a union . . . can be brought about...
When Tokyo last week told of the resignation of Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo (not to be confused with Premier Hideki Tojo), many dopesters thought that Japan's long-feared attack on Siberia would shortly begin. In 1938 and 1939 Shigenori Togo was Ambassador to Russia, where he was said to have helped plan the Russo-Japanese Non-Aggression Pact. Rumor said that Jap etiquette required that he resign before Japan broke its pact...
Governor Stassen moved fast. With one eye on the flag and the other on 1944, he announced that he would run again this autumn for the Governorship; that, if elected, he would resign in April to join the Navy. He then chose his friend, Ed Thye, to be the candidate for the key spot, the lieutenant-governorship...