Word: william
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William M. Rountree, 42, veteran (17 years) Foreign Service officer and three-year Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, to be Ambassador to Pakistan...
...refugees fled the hated republicanism of the new United States and found refuge in Canada-an influx of British stock to an area until then mostly populated by French habitants. In 1837 a brace of piddling rebellions-one led by French-Canadian Louis Papineau, the other by British-Canadian William Lyon Mackenzie-startled London and led to the establishment of "responsible government," with the Canadian colonies handling their own internal affairs through the adoption of the British Cabinet system...
...term British Commonwealth* had been loosely in use for decades, and Britain's Arthur James Balfour, World War I Foreign Secretary, undertook to define it-with help from Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King (William Lyon Mackenzie's grandson). Lord Balfour's report called the Commonwealth "autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another," and united "by a common allegiance to the Crown," as head of the Commonwealth. The 1931 Statute of Westminster removed from Britain the right to withhold consent to laws passed by Dominion Parliaments...
...longtime (1932-57) chairman of the U.S. Communist Party. William Z. Foster, now 78 and so ill that he has never been tried on his 1948 indictments for conspiracy, asked a Manhattan court to lift the raps on him or let him go to the Soviet Union anyway. His reason: medical treatment costs too much...
...discreetly, or pungently, provocatively, rudely and even brutally. We may not tell a defamatory lie about anyone." With that charge, the jury in a London court last week retired to consider the libel suit of Pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace against the London Daily Mirror and its columnist "Cassandra," William Connor (TIME, June 22). Three hours and 22 minutes later, the jurors were back with their verdict, eleven of them wearing the traditional stolid stare. But the twelfth -Mrs. Jean Friend, a grey-haired, 49-year-old widow-could not keep the delicious secret. She winked at Liberace. All over...