Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doumergue last week in a broadcast to Frenchmen a la Roosevelt: "The Constitution must be revised to avert a dictatorship, a foreign invasion and another war. The situation in Europe is such that instability of our Government might prove fatal. Many able statesmen sit in our Senate and Chamber but they are scattered among the numerous groups which make Parliament look like a kaleidoscope. They pass their time fighting among themselves to achieve a power [as Premier] which it is impossible for them to use well or usefully when they have obtained it. Is not all this to the great...
...then and there, wrote to their Deputies and Senators, demanded support for M. Doumergue. His prestige was at its zenith?but the politicians in his Cabinet remained politicians. When he asked their unanimous support last week they agreed 11-to-8 that the Cabinet should "submit" his demands to Chamber and Senate. Ominously the potent bloc of six Radical Socialist Cabinet Ministers under paunchy Edouard Herriot served notice that they retain "liberty of action" to oppose their own Premier in debate if they choose...
With only the nation behind him, Great Little Gaston pushed on against the politicians. This week he will ask Chamber and Senate to go to Versailles and there in joint session as the National Assembly amend the Constitution to: 1) raise the Premier who is now primus inter pares ("first among equals") to explicit leadership of his Ministers; 2) empower the President, one year or more after election of the Chamber, to dissolve it without the consent of the Senate; 3) empower the Government to punish strikes within the career ranks of French civil servants by dismissal; 4) provide that...
Under the existing system in France, the government, lacking the power to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies, has no effective means of forcing a program of legislation through the two houses of Parliament. So long as the problems which had to be dealt with by such an assembly were relatively simple, a certain amount of inefficiency was the price that was willingly paid for liberty. But the financial crisis, the critical situation of foreign affairs, the Stavisky scandal, have raised problems with which such a Parliament is unfitted to deal. Rehabilitation has to be concentrated in a power capable...
...proposed reform bill contemplates giving the Premier the right to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies in the event of a vote of no confidence. While the reform cannot mitigate the instability inevitable under a multi-party, Parliamentary system, it gives the executive such a power over the Deputies that they will think twice before opposing a government which has the power to cut short their Parliamentary careers by forcing them to stand before the electorate...