Word: basilic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minister Sir Basil Brooke, as his people went to the polls...
...Woman on the Hill. A few months ago, the Tory government of Prime Minister Sir Basil Brooke had little reason to count on such a triumph. Last December, when Eire passed the Republic of Ireland Act, which claimed jurisdiction over the Northern counties, Sir Basil saw a chance to bolster his own position by calling a general election. In the ordinary course of events, Northern Ireland would not have had a general election until next year. By rushing the election through on the issue of partition, Northern Ireland's position as a part of the United Kingdom would...
Below the border in Eire, Prime Minister John A. Costello took up his coreligionists' cause with more will than wit. High-handed Costello played straight into Sir Basil's hands by calling together a committee which ordered collection boxes set up in front of every church, Catholic or Protestant, in Eire. The money was to be sent up North to help the Republicans...
Tales of Fatima (Sat. 9:30p.m., CBS). First of a new dramatic series starring Basil Rathbone...
...World War II, Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart came into contact with many of the captured generals of the German High Command. His own reputation as a military authority-he was the foremost British advocate of defensive warfare-had been somewhat flattened out by the success of the German Panzers, but talking with the generals Captain Liddell Hart was in his element. For one thing, most of them had read his books. Once they opened up they talked well-and with the wisdom of hindsight...