Word: ministership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soyinka, a contemporary Nigerian playwright, novelist and poet takes as his plot the attempts of a fraudulent religious prophet to win people to his Christian teachings by promising them worldly benefits: to one, a prime-ministership, to another, the position of head clerk. Each character is pious on the surface but greedy, lusty and ambitious on the inside, and the most humorous moments come when these inner feelings are most bluntly and frankly expressed as when the phony prophet's disciple, Chume, whose principal desire in life is to beat his wife, pleads with his mentor, "Just once! Just once...
Missing from the House last week were two familiar figures, both former Foreign Secretaries. Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, 62, holder of six Cabinet posts in Tory governments and rejected aspirant for the prime ministership when Harold Macmillan resigned, announced that he was leaving his front-bench seat to accept a life peerage and become Master of Cambridge's Trinity College. The Labor Party's Patrick Gordon Walker, disappointed loser in last month's by-election at Leyton, announced that he had also accepted a position in the academic world-as adviser to the Initial Teach ing Alphabet...
With a general election ahead, Ceylon's leader has every reason to be edgy. Mrs. Bandaranaike is contesting her late husband's old seat at Attana-galla, near Colombo, and while she may keep a place in Parliament, she may well lose her prime-ministership. Labor strikes and a binge of nationalization have crippled the economy. Last summer she tried to prop up her unstable government by forming an alliance with the island's Trotskyites, who received three Cabinet portfolios, including the Finance Ministry...
...decade in lonely, futile opposition to the appeasement policies of the government. Most observers considered his career ended. But when Neville Chamberlain's government collapsed in the face of Germany's conquests of Poland, Norway, Denmark, and the Low Countries, Churchill was the inevitable choice for the Prime Ministership...
...week following Harold Macmillian's retirement, Lord Home was everyone's second choice. While R. A. B. Butler and Lord Hailsham split bitterly in quest of the Prime Ministership, Home waited patiently for a deadlock, hoping for the appointment as a compromise candidate. Both the deadlock and the appointment came, but the compromise was only illusory. In seeking to resolve the Butler-Hailsham conflict with Home, unflappable Mac inadvertently produced nothing short of a party revolt...