Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...46th President in 130 years, had gone the way of many of his predecessors-deposed by military coup. A crowd of demonstrators gathered at the palace to protest to the new rulers; and tanks opened fire. Three persons were killed, 17 wounded. In the palace, Arosemena refused to resign at first, then bowed to superior firepower and was bundled onto an air force plane bound for Panama. All this was classic, but this time there was a variation. The reason given by the military brass for its coup: that Arosemena was a drunkard who had "spotted the national honor...
...Sight. "Kim" Philby had known Burgess since undergraduate days at Cambridge, welcomed him as a boarder in his house when both were stationed at the British embassy in Washington in 1950. When Burgess and Maclean eloped to Russia in 1951, Philby was forced to resign from the Foreign Office amidst a flurry of rumors that he was "the third man" who had tipped them off that the police were on their trail. Later, this charge was indignantly denied by Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, who personally vouched for Philby's good character. The Foreign Office even asked the Observer...
...turpitude, but he had convicted himself of negligence and naivete-or perhaps simply of a fatal ability to avert his eyes from what he did not wish to see. In the vote following the debate, 27 Conservatives voted against Macmillan or abstained. On all sides there were cries of "Resign, resign," and this is what Macmillan will almost certainly have to do-the only remaining question being when...
...Next? Some angry Tories felt that Macmillan should resign at once, but at a backbenchers' meeting the view prevailed that, as one Cabinet minister put it, "the country must not get the feeling that he is being hounded out because of Christine Keeler. Our party would never recover from that...
...present consensus is that Macmillan will be allowed to retire rather than to resign, some time this summer or fall. In perspective, he may well remain one of the most successful Prime Ministers in Tory history, but few Conservatives want him in command of their next election campaign; even pre-Profumo, the party had been in bad trouble over defense muddles, Britain's failure to enter the Common Market, and above all Macmillan's stop-and-go fiscal policies and a sluggish economy...