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...rank which goes back to the 12th Century, which has been prefixed to the names of famed Murat, Turenne, Ney. Practical, Government officials pointed out that the title of Marshal of France has been allowed to lapse before. For a great hero in a national crisis the Parliament can always revive...
...There is excellent historical precedent for the "rump" designation. In 1648, when the English Parliament was about to move for the execution of Charles I, the only way to get a majority for such a proceeding was to expel many a moderate member who did not wish for the King's death. After this expulsion, commonly known as Pride's Purge, the portion of Parliament remaining was the original "rump" meeting ?i. e., a portion of the original whole...
Author Redlich, Moravian born, practiced law in Vienna, sat for twelve years in Austria's Parliament, and was appointed in 1918 Minister of Finance for old Austria. At present professor of Comparative Public Law at Harvard Law School, he has written numerous essays and books on law and government. With such qualifications he now writes the first, and definitive, history of Francis Joseph?not a biography in the Strachey-Maurois manner, but a survey of European international problems since 1848, as reflected in the stubborn career of the last Emperor of Austria...
...thoughtful in not asking for money, but merely for an expression of "moral support" from the Deputies in his campaign to aid Poldavian sufferers. "We believe that our interests were betrayed at the Peace Conference," wrote Poldavian Lamidaeff. "and we appeal to you as a member of the French Parliament to do your utmost to help us in this our hour of need. The whole nation of Poldavia and its noble monarch who disregarded personal safety in 1916, and joined France in her War for justice and righteousness, pray you to remember our sacrifices...
Died. Lord Younger, 77, of London, famed Tory Member of Parliament, financier (breweries, banks, railroads) ; of heart disease; in London. In 1919, with Andrew Bonar Law, he swung Conservative support to the Coalition party which elected Prime Minister Lloyd George. In 1922 he swung the Conservatives the other way, caused the Prime Minister's downfall. He was called "the man who pulls the strings which make the Ministers dance...