Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...falls due in September, 1929. The only alternative to paying this huge sum in cash is for France to ratify the Mellon-Berenger debt funding agreement, in which all the debts of France to the U. S. are merged and spread over 62 years. Thus far a stubborn French Parliament has refused to ratify-and the standing $400,000,000 bill is another reason why Frenchmen are unsympathetic toward Signer Klotz...
...Principality, embers of revolution were a-glowing. The first alarm was sounded when the Parliament of Monaco -called the National Council-resigned en masse. The second alarm was figuratively turned in by Monaco's one Minister of State, florid, flustered M. Louis Eugene Maurice Piette, after the Communal Council of Monaco. Like delighted children at a fire, the tourists and gamblers of Monte Carlo shrilled questions: "Is it really a revolution? What's it all about? What will the Prince do when he gets here...
Since His Majesty is the 124th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-0-Mikami, such appeals are regarded as a deadly sacrilege and sin. Nonetheless last week, when Emperor Hirohito rode out to open Parliament, a burly farmer from Saitama Province burst through the cordon of Imperial police and groveled sinfully before the Son of Heaven...
Presently, as the State Coach clattered into Parliament Square and drew up, Emperor Hirohito stepped nimbly down, as though nothing had happened, and was received by members of the Kizokuin (House of Peers) and the Shugiin (Commons), standing at stiff attention in the open air. Soon, beneath the vault of Heaven, the Son of Heaven pronounced in high, piercing, rapid syllables the traditional Four Sentences, opening Parliament...
Political Situation. When members of the present Parliament were elected (TIME, March 5), the Seiyukai party of Prime Minister General Baron Giichi Tanaka could count upon only 221 seats. The Government was therefore menaced with upset by the Minseito opposition of 214, plus a faction holding the balance of power led by Deputy Yusuke Tsurumi. That the Cabinet was not immediately overthrown, was due to the adjournment of Parliament for the solemn enthronement of the Emperor Hirohito...