Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago the Foreign Minister ended a long Chamber of Deputies debate on foreign policy by half-heartedly reading a strong anti-appeasement speech written for him. M. Daladier, on the other hand, thrilled the Chamber by an extemporaneous talk in which he declared that France would fight rather than satisfy Benito Mussolini's demands for French territory...
...near dawn, and broad St. Peter's Square lay still and dark in the cool Roman night. But lights still burned in the windows of the Vatican palaces, to the right of the Square and its long Bernini colonnades. One light shone dimly. In the small second-story chamber which it illuminated, on a plain brass bed, a weary old man lay breathing heavily. A black-cowled monk, a silent doctor kept vigil...
...French Chamber of Deputies served notice on Dictator Benito Mussolini that he had just as well give up any idea of getting French territory. It passed unanimously a resolution which: 1) declared the French Empire indivisible; 2) placed it under the same protection as continental France; 3) asserted that it could not be "transmitted, delegated or shared...
...French Chamber of Deputies echoed with cries of "Long Live Roosevelt!" and "Vive I'Amerique!" after Air Minister Guy La Chambre, explaining the recent purchase of 600 warplanes in the U. S., paid this tribute: "I take this opportunity of thanking the great American democracy and its leader, President Roosevelt, who has realized that in serving France he is serving peace...
...Goebbels. For these offenses he has often been in the Nazi doghouse, once in a concentration camp. Last week the Nazi bigwigs finally caught on, and Propaganda Minister Goebbels expelled Actor Finck, a fellow vaudeville actor and a comedy team, "The Three Rulands," from the Reich's Culture Chamber as "desecrators of things that are holy" to the Nazis. Thus kaput was written to their German careers...