Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Sat down for the "short session" prior to Nov. 20 at which time George V will open Parliament's new year with his Speech from the Throne. ¶ Were jolted by nation-wide municipal election returns ominous for the National Government (see col. 3).
One third of all municipal Councilors in England and Wales are elected each year for a three-year term. Last week in 300 cities and towns voters marched to the polls. The seats they had packed with Conservatives in the "National Government" landslide of 1931 were now up for election...
From such a verdict there could be but one conclusion: If the National Government were to dare a General Election tomorrow the Empire's present leaders would be forced at the very least into coalition with Labor, much of their work would be undone and James Ramsay MacDonald would stand...
If the Government can find no stable majority, if the only logical move is to order dissolution and an election on the issue at stake?then the Government can go hang. It has, amid a mounting welter of corruption that produced the Stavisky Scandal (TIME, Jan. 15), the bloody riots...
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...