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...army after its 11-day march from Wales, he having marched only part of two days with them. Anxious London "bobbies" gave them unnecessary protection as they swung through the main streets to the foot of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar square, where a Labor Magna Charta was read. There followed a meeting with Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cook's Army | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...warm admirers and follow ers, remindful of the $7,000,000 he has given to charities, schools, universities in Peking and his clemency in pardoning many a Chinaman languishing in jail, called this latest manifestation of Marshal Chang's will the "Magna Charta," the "Chinese Droits de l'Homme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Magna Charta | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...guidance of the State. This gospel of action, dynamic, propulsive, was expounded last week by Signor Benito Mussolini in a great document designed as the ground plan on which the new social order must arise. Fascists hailed the proclamation as their Charter of Labor, as the first magna charta guaranteeing to a people not rights but duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Work Guaranteed | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...counsel thee to keep the king's commandment. . . . Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? Angrily, readers asked themselves: Do Uldine's declarations of literate faith in Biblical commandments let her forget the Magna Charta and the Rights of Man as expressed in the U. S. Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Handmaiden's Wisdom | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Spectator (London), independent Conservative weekly, contained this statement: "This is a new reading of English history, under which Magna Charta and the Bill of Rights become simply the public expression of the Englishman's dislike of discomfort and inconvenience- not by any means an unattractive reading!" priest, Don Sturzo, the Party professed undying hostility to Benito; but, because the Premier was trying to conciliate the Catholics, many members of the Party sympathized with him, seceded, became political nonentities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: New Party | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

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