Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plans were also discussed for submitting controversial issues to a "straw" vote in the Houses in conjunction with open forums on the problems...
Losing a Country. On the basis of last June's elections, the Socialists and Communists together are now the strongest group in Italy, with about 40% of the vote against 35% for the Christian Democrats. De Gasperi may be forced to deal with the right (thus alienating some of his present supporters), or else take a back seat to the Marxists...
...attack the new constitution (which puts government power in the Assembly as against the President of the Republic), on the ground that only 9,000,000 out of 26,000,000 eligible voters had approved it (9,000,000 abstained). The morose military hero asked his followers to vote for parties which opposed and would try to change the constitution. These adjurations helped the Radicals (centrists) and the rightists, but this political sector, though expected to gain some strength, was still far too weak to threaten the leftist coalition...
With the issue thus neatly ticketed, Britons braved an icy drizzle to vote in last week's annual municipal elections. The result was a smashing victory for Labor. In 223 cities and towns of England and Wales, socialists registered a net gain of 159 local council seats...
Each member nation will be represented at Paris by five delegates, who will vote as a unit. For its team the U.S. had picked a team of first-stringers, headed by William Benton, Assistant Secretary of State.* Behind them is a 90-man U.S. commission of educators, scientists and cultural leaders who help map out strategy...