Word: government
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dukes Must Fag. Eton's apologists point out that it has its own kind of democracy. Unlike other English public schools. where masters appoint boys as prefects and monitors, elected student committees govern Eton. The 20-odd top boys who make "Pop" run the sports, carry out the school rules, enforce discipline. and get special privileges. Even young dukes and princes must "fag" (do chores) for older Eton boys. To prove that this system teaches both obedience and leadership. Etonians point proudly to products like the Duke of Wellington,* ten Prime Ministers, including Gladstone, the elder Pitt...
...hamstrung Caspar Dutra there are two ways out. He can let the Army stage a coup and abolish Congress. Or he can seize upon some incident to declare a "state of siege" under which the Communists can be squelched. Because he wants to govern legally, Dutra has refused the first alternative. Shrewd observers do not think the well-disciplined Communists will give him any excuse for the second...
...showdown was at hand. Almost continuously since liberation, French Communists had been part of France's Government, had played along with a democratic system they sought to destroy. Despite their avowed patriotism, the Communists' allegiance to Moscow had constantly conflicted with the interests of France. Last week, this anomalous situation was over-at least for the time being. The Communists were out of the Government. The crucial question now was: Could any French Government govern France without the Communists...
...theme of the play has as much (and no more) validity in 1947 as it had in 1921: we should aspire to live longer if we wish to live, and govern, well. Our statesmen are "not old enough for their jobs." Now an irrepressible 90, Bernard Shaw adds in his postscript...
...Normally electees from the Junior and Senior Classes would be '48 and '49 members. The confused Class system resulting from the war forces as temporarily to abandon this eligibility rule and govern nominees as well as voters by whether they have two or four regular terms remaining in College," Axt said...