Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happy that the Queen's representative in South Africa should be a Boer with a pronounced anti-British bias (based on childhood memories of being herded into a British prison camp with his mother), dedicated to making his country a republic and taking it out of the Commonwealth. The Labor Party's executive committee last week passed a resolution urging party members to boycott South African goods for a month in protest at the appointment...
...sent abroad in order to win cold-war advantage. And until lately, European nations have talked poor mouth (Italy, for example, likes to bring up its own impoverished south, the Mezzogiorno, as one of the world's underdeveloped regions). Or they have insisted that British spending in the Commonwealth, French aid to its Community, and Belgian assistance to the Congo must be reckoned as each country's contribution to taking care of the rest of the world...
...other M.P.s in the Commonwealth -not in India or Ghana or far-off Tonga -would have put up so long with so many hallowed inconveniences. The Houses of Parliament, which grew out of Edward the Confessor's Palace of Westminster, sprawl over eight acres of Gothic mazes, including 1,100 rooms, eleven quadrangles and 100 staircases. But aside from Ministers and the Leader of the Opposition, not one of the 630 M.P.s has an office all his own-or even rates a permanent desk...
...student at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at Oxford University, Kilson stated, "I happen to know personally one of the Harvard administrators responsible for admission (as a Negro student I was quite interested in this question), and I can assure you that for Harvard's part there is not one iota of discrimination in admitting Negro students...
...prepared to leave the country, Philip assured his hosts that the Queen herself would be coming out in 1961 to pay a postponed visit. Though the thought was delicately left unspoken, everyone knew that by then Ghana would probably be the Commonwealth's third republic, recognizing Elizabeth, as India and Pakistan do, not as Queen but merely as symbolic head of the Commonwealth...