Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bernays is the Londoner of the party. He prepared at Russell, and his college is Worcester. He has rowed on the college crew, but he has also failed to win his "blue." He is politically Liberal, and expects to stand for Parliament at the next election
...future of our Interparliamentary Union is a challenge to every parliament of the world. Our work has just begun. We are a non-partisan bodyt concerned with the international problems of today in the light of a better tomorrow. It is not unreasonable to expect that we shall become more and more, albeit unofficially, a 'parliament of parliaments...
...expected, may be judged from a statement by Deputy Louis Marin: "M. Caillaux's failure is the best thing that could have happened to us. I think he must have sought it himself when he saw he was rushing into an inextricable situation. The Government undoubtedly and the Parliament certainly will reject the proposals he is bringing...
...What does the Opposition amount to? What do we care whether they continue their boycott* or return to Parliament? What do we care for their impotent resolutions, their slanderous falsehoods, their hates? Do they really think they can halt our impetuous advance with their fatuous paper barricades? They will never succeed...
...called "Aventine Opposition" abstained from voting at the last session of Parliament, as a boycott-protest against a series of laws passed to give the Fascist Government practically unbridled power (see TIME...