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...Oliver Cromwell, "I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the richest he; and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent put himself under that government." While St. Robert Bellarmine is entitled to the greatest credit for his unpopular thesis in those days that the authority of the Pope over heads of state was only indirect and spiritual, this is not nearly as important to Jefferson and Madison as John Locke and the Puritan...
Advise and Consent. Although never once cutting below the surface, this political contrivance (based on Allen Drury's bestselling novel) gets behind the scenes often enough to produce brisk, even gripping theater...
...hands of palace tutors, King Mahendra had acquired modern ideas and set about introducing them to Nepal. He directed the drafting of a new constitution himself and, with the aid of $30 million in U.S. aid, built schools, roads and a radiotelephone network. In 1959, with Mahendra's consent and blessing, Nepal conducted its first election. The Nepali Congress Party, led by India-trained, vaguely socialist B. P. Koirala, won 74 out of 109 seats...
Eleanor Roosevelt came away from the Broadway hit version of Advise and Consent filled with "depression and disgust," she reported in her syndicated column. "I know how ruthless and how utterly discouraging politics can be. I think I know how to remember one's friends and how to fight against one's enemies. But I have seen this done without stealing, without doublecrossing and without threats." Particularly worried by the impression the show might make on Manhattan-based U.N. delegates, the one-time First Lady angrily declared: "If this were wartime, I think one would cry treason...
Advise and Consent. Equipped with an all-but-complete set of political chessmen, the shallow but suspenseful Broadway adaptation of the bestselling novel pushes rooks and pawns about with the greatest gusto...