Word: governmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To Lose or Choose. Australia's new Prime Minister would be the Liberals' Robert Gordon Menzies, 55, an urbane lawyer and veteran politician. Out of government leadership and onto the Opposition bench goes Labor's Joseph Benedict Chifley, 64, a dignified, pipe-smoking former locomotive engineer with...
China's fugitive Nationalist government tarried at Chengtu just ten days. The night before it fled once more from the oncoming Reds, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek called a cabinet session. Decisions: 1) resistance to the Communists on the mainland would go underground; 2) headquarters for some 600,000 Nationalist...
Almost from the start of the parliamentary campaign, Australia's Labor government had had its back to the ropes. Australians were plainly fed up with widening bureaucratic controls, gasoline rationing and high prices, creeping nationalization, hamstringing restrictions on private enterprise. Through the campaign Labor fought with feeble punches: Government...
The political attention of Britain was focused last week on Bradford, a sooty textile city in Yorkshire, where Britain's Labor government faced probably its last major test before next year's general elections. It was the 35th by-election since 1945 in which the Labor government was...
Recently Grotewohl's conscience, and the scorn of his former Socialist friends, seemed to trouble him. Last year he paid a secret call on U.S. and British officials in Berlin, offered to desert the Communists and work for the West. His only condition was that the Socialists in the...