Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMMAN, Jordan, April 23--This sorely beset kingdom was plunged today into its second political crisis in two weeks. An ugly turn of events threatened. Premier Hussein Khalidi at a stormy conference fought off demands of all political parties that he and his Cabinet resign...
...firmly certifying presidential disability and transferring presidential functions to the Vice President (including an Administration recommendation advanced by Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., delegating responsibility for the decision to the Cabinet). The hubbub prompted a blunt question at the President's press conference: Was Ike planning to resign? Replied the President coldly: "The worst rot that I have heard since I have been in this office." There was another subject that was arousing some Eisenhower ire: the budget furor. "It is an easy thing to make speeches about," he said, "but it is a very hard thing...
...function as Premier, had transferred public money, equivalent to one quarter of the 1955-56 revenue of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, to his own bank, thereby saving it from collapse. "Guilty of misconduct as a minister," declared the tribunal. Advised the far-off London Times: "He should resign and, in so far as it is possible, make restitution. He can then ask the people to give him a new mandate...
Another Third Republic tradition, the rapid succession of cabinets, has also been an unwanted feature of the Fourth Republic. Cabinets give up too soon, taking any parliamentary defeat as a rejection of their whole administration, and resign before the Assembly actually votes no-confidence. Also, votes of no-confidence and censure have again developed into common weapons, and are not the exceptional measures they were intended to be. Cabinets have used the "informal vote of confidence," i.e., a threat of resignation in the absence of parliamentary approval on policy, as a frequent weapon rather than an occasional defense...
...little, although it may already be too late. The electoral system should be overhauled to prevent traditional sectional and ideological differences from paralyzing efficiency. The Committee on Constitutional Reform has suggested that the Opposition must propose an acceptable alternate program before the Government is obliged to resign. This would be highly desirable, assuming the Opposition is united enough to formulate common alternative programs...