Word: parliament
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...Royal Navy in 1849, serving on the three-decker Queen. His grandfather, Thomas Fremantle, captained the Neptune at Trafalgar (1805) under Lord Nelson. His son, Admiral Sir Sydney Robert Fremantle, retired last year. Admiral Sir Edmund's snowy whiskers often festooned a royal carriage at the opening of Parliament. On his gist birthday he criticized the wary tactics of Admiral Jellicoe at Jutland (1916). "When you see ships," he stated, "you are supposed to fight them. I did in my day, and we took risks...
Several correspondents suggested that unless the Conservative Government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin acts quickly to relieve miner distress, the result of Edward of Wales' tour may be a storm of indignation which will cost Mr. Baldwin the next election. Though the public has contributed $2,500,000 and Parliament has voted to double that sum (TIME, Jan. 7), the Conservative Government is still procrastinating so outrageously that last week Laborites in the House of Commons, forced from Lord Eustace Percy the admission that not a penny of the huge fund has as yet been spent...
Events strikingly revealed, last week, that Jugoslavia's 12,000,000 citizens are now quietly despotized by one man? their King. The nation was faced with a problem which most people would refer to their Parliament. But the King has abolished Parliament (TIME, Jan. 14). He has suspended the constitution. Therefore it was Alexander who decided of his sole volition, last week, that Jugoslavia should ratify the Kellogg-Briand peace pact renouncing war (TIME, July...
Unquestionably the trip to Paris, where King Alexander conferred secretly with that stern greybeard Prime Minister Raymond Poincare, marked the turning-point in the royal career. Jugoslavia is the "little ally" of France, and the statesmen at Paris have been repeatedly vexed by the notorious instability of the Parliament in Belgrade?an instability which became anarchy last summer when the leader of the opposition, Stefan Raditch, was assassinated on the floor of the House (TiME, July 2). Apparently M. Poincaré recommended the kill-or-cure panacea known as a military dictatorship. King Alexander, assured of French backing, went home...
Appropriately Big-Little Mrs. Pankhurst will be cast seven feet tall, will stand on a four-foot pedestal in a corridor of the Houses of Parliament, towering triumphantly above minute males...