Possible Clues:

• Union spent to bring in a civil engineer
• Association formed for mutual benefit
• Action pact?
• Joining up of everyone that is kept outside African party
• “… he will be sent on a tour around the world, and probably rumours of a morganatic ____ will follow” (Keir Hardie, five days after the birth of the future Edward VIII)
• Lines in top-notch article on church association
• Close association
• Reality TV team tactic
• Everybody in church retains a friendly relationship
• Confederation or coalition