Word: government
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malta's dockyard. A Rhodes Scholar and civil engineer, ambitious young Mintoff has been a leader in Malta's Labor Party since 1936, and Prime Minister since last March. "If I fail in this," he said last week, "I shall resign, and the others will have to govern Malta as best they...
Faced with the startling notion of accepting a distant relative as an intimate member of the family proper, Britain has tried to allay Malta's demands with a vague plan for government through the Home Office instead of the Colonial Office, but Mintoff will not be fobbed off. "We are prepared to accept all the facts that you accept here in Britain-taxation and all the rest," he told officials last week, "but we can no longer be just a naval base. We are a mature people who want our full constitutional rights, and you cannot treat...
...calm profusion, Britons went to the polls. The result was a sharp and decisive victory for Great Britain's Conservative Party and the first solidly entrenched Brit ish government in the past five years. In smartly winning his gamble on a well-timed quick election, Sir Anthony Eden won his own five-year mandate to govern Great Britain under the banners of en lightened Toryism, and his Conservatives more than trebled the thin parliamentary majority Eden had inherited from Sir Winston Churchill...
...widest majority won by any right-wing government since Stanley Baldwin's National Government swept in on a platform of peace and a majority of 247 in 1935. "It seems that the country has said to us, 'Get on with the job,' " said Sir Anthony Eden, the man who had waited so long in the lee of Sir Winston Churchill for his own chance to govern...
...about everything on their side-prosperity, the neatly timed Big Four talks, a well-financed party machine, popular leaders, and the good fortune to be in office during, in the words of the London Economist, "one of those rare periods of British history when it has been easier to govern than to oppose." Yet the voting swing to the Conservative Party was less than 2%. The Tories' white-haired campaign manager, avuncular old Lord Woolton, acknowledged that "the low poll" was the key to victory. He quoted a taxi driver in Stockport: "I had nothing to grumble about." Lord...