Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revealed when he utterly refused to deal or cooperate with the Indian Statutory Commission, chairmanned by Great Britain's leading Liberal barrister Sir John Simon, and now in India, charged with investigating how large a measure of self-determination can be wisely extended by Great Britain's Parliament. Thoroughly suspicious of Sir John and all his works-Pandit Nehru has said: "In this Commission there is nothing but a machine to forge chains upon India. . . . Personally I should prefer forced slavery to being a party to forging the chains to bind...
...public to a radio appeal made by Edward of Wales, on Christmas Day, for contributions to relieve the miners.* Since His Royal Highness spoke more than ?320,000 ($1,555,000) directly elicited by his words has poured in. For every pound Sterling contributed the Treasury stands pledged by Parliament to contribute a matching pound. Even with all this stop-gap and state charity, however, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin seems impotent to devise a constructive scheme which will really stem the tide of unemployment...
...final ounce of boldness probably came, last fortnight, when the Dictator closed and bade farewell to the last democratically elected parliament of Italy. When the new Chamber meets, next Spring, it will consist entirely of Deputies hand picked by the Fascist Grand Council. There will be no Opposition. In the words of Il Capo to the departing deputies...
Conscience-stricken Deputies of the Republic passed a law, last week, providing that hereafter no member of Parliament may serve as a director, officer or executive in any financial, industrial or commercial firm...
Shortly afterward the Deputies rebounded from this excess of self-denial, voted an increase in the salaries of members of Parliament from 49,000 to 60,000 francs...