Word: states
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space traveler named George Adamski (TIME, June 1). In Belgium, the newspapers fumed about ex-King Leopold, who was forced to abdicate eight years ago in favor of his eldest son Baudouin, but did not move out of the royal palace at Laeken or stop meddling in affairs of state...
...palace and told that Leopold's youngest son in the royal line, Albert, 25, was going to marry Paola Ruffo di Calabria, 21, one of the prettiest of a clutch of pretty Italian princesses. Everybody thought the girl a catch, but because royal marriages are affairs of state demanding government deliberation and approval, the Cabinet again felt itself insulted, ignored and affronted. Three days later, Pope John XXIII announced in Rome that he would perform the marriage himself at the Vatican, and let it be understood that there would be no civil wedding first. Belgian Socialists cried out that...
...time when Parliament itself is discredited in the public mind, Parliament must not assert its "harassing" power against the government. Added Debre: "My words are not dictated by a taste for theory but by the memory of the distortion of parliamentary methods that since 1872 has made the state its first victim. Democracy is a matter of great patience. It may be amusing to revise a government every six months, but true democracy lies in governmental stability between national elections. Those who criticize me most will recognize later how much they are obligated...
...Cowan Plan. But slowly word of the Hola atrocity has been spreading, and stirring consciences in London. After all, Kenya is a crown colony for which the British are responsible, not an independent state like the Union of South Africa, whose racial practices are beyond Britain's authority. British Labor M.P.s smelled a first-rate colonial scandal. They dug up and hurled at the Macmillan government the fact that Kenya's official "Cowan Plan," named after a colonial prison administrator, decreed that recalcitrant prisoners "be manhandled to the site and forced to carry out the task...
Obviously embarrassed, the Tories stalled off Labor demands for a judicial inquiry, protesting that the question of prosecution was still being examined by Kenya authorities. Finally Julian Amery, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, stood up in the House to announce: "The Attorney General of Kenya has decided that on the evidence available no charge can be framed against identified individuals in respect of identified illegal force used in the incident." Angrily, Labor M.P. Barbara Castle jumped to her feet to demand, "Has there been any identity parade of warders? If not, why not?" The British press, with honorable...