Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...derously with that heavy instrument, last week, the door of the Canadian House of Commons. Thus summoned, the Right Honorable Members followed Black Rod to the Red Chamber of the Canadian Senate. Soon His Majesty's Governor General, Viscount Willingdon, pronounced the Speech from the Throne, opening Parliament...
...Majesty will have no choice but to take sides, if Parliament passes the new and further revised prayer book of the Church of England (the State Church). Should a bill approving that volume pass and be placed before the Fifth George, he must either sign or refuse to sign. In either case, the disappointed faction would be alienated from the Throne...
...stirred in the Fifth George an acute consciousness that he owes his throne to the fact that the First George was a sturdy Protestant. He, the Elector of Hanover, achieved his legal right of succession to the British Throne under the Act of Settlement (1701), in which the British Parliament had taken care to exclude all Roman Catholic claimants. To-day is barely two centuries later than that time-when a religious issue was paramount in settling the First George upon his throne (1714). Has England changed so greatly that the Fifth George can dare to remain aloof from...
...although its individual leaders are less potent than those in the State Church), is probably strong enough to maintain the Sovereign in suspended straddle, until the abyss beneath him closes through conciliation, or is replaced by some such new order of things as disestablishment of the State Church by Parliament...
...politicians were banished, last week, because they had attempted to lead an opposition wing in the Russian Communist party, a party which brooks no opposition. By command of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin, the oppositionists had been cast out of the party (TIME, Dec. 26) and expelled from the Soviet Parliament (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week the outcasts were sorted out into grades, according to truculence, and then banished to regions of exile carefully chosen to fit their political crimes. Emerged three sharply classified groups: i) Ultra-truculent; 2) Truculent; and 3) Penitent...