Word: secretariats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When in 1947 the Italian government imposed a whopping tax on capital, Prince Pacelli and Count Pecci found themselves in an odd position. As Italian citizens, they were subject to the tax, but as diplomatic representatives of foreign powers they were specifically exempt. Experts at the Vatican State Secretariat studied the question, decided they should not have to pay, and the Vatican formally asked the Italian government to exempt them...
...Vatican State Secretariat had the last word. Said an official spokesman: "The rank of Prince Assistant to the Holy See will be filled by Aspreno Colonna alone. It is to be expected that Filippo Orsini will have sufficient respect for himself and for others not to show himself at the Vatican again...
...year-end Plenum, Khrushchev moved a clutch of his secretariat juniors into the party Presidium in place of Molotov and other old stagers flung out in last June's big command scrap. Of the top Presidium's 15 members, all but five Bulganin, Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Shvernik and Kozlov) are now Khrushchev subbordinates who also hold jobs in the party secretariat...
...single solid result of the conference-an agreement to establish a permanent "Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Council"-clearly had Dictator Nasser's blessing. The new council will be headquartered in Cairo, will begin operations on $29,000 contributed by Egypt. The council's ten-man permanent secretariat, which includes representatives of Russia and Red China, will have an Egyptian secretary-general. When the last resolution had been passed, and delegates from 44 Afro-Asian nations stood, hand in hand, on the stage of Cairo University's Celebration Hall, the predominantly Egyptian audience...
...Central Committee announced that Zhukov had been dropped forthwith from the Presidium. "The secretariat of the Central Committee has been instructed to provide him with other work...