Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Small of stature but agile and smart is William M. ("Billy") Hughes, kinetic oldster, Wartime Prime Minister of Australia. Fortnight ago he worked a shrewd wangle in the Dominion Parliament, caused the defeat by one vote of the Cabinet of his bitter personal rival for leadership of the Nationalist Party, youthful Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce (TIME, Sept. 23). This made necessary a General Election called for Oct. 12. Delighted with his disruptive handiwork, Billy Hughes celebrated one night last week by attending at Sydney, Australia, what he said was his first wrestling match...
Even more peculiar than the dive under the bench was the position in which Mr. Hughes found himself, last week, as he started campaigning for re-election to the Dominion Parliament. He claims to be a Nationalist (he formed the Nationalist party in 1917) and would like to run as such, but because he engineered the defeat of his personal enemy Nationalist Prime Minister Bruce last fortnight, the Nationalist Party formally refused to endorse his candidacy last week. On the other hand, although he claims he is not a member of the Laborite Opposition, the Labor Party announced last week...
Clip-clap, clip-clap through the tidy Hague, good motherly Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands clattered off last week in her State Coach to open Parliament. With her rode buxom, schoolgirlish Crown Princess Juliana and the Queen's fat but studiously self-effacing Prince Consort-Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. A smart troop of cavalry gave dash to the corpulent Royal turnout. Loyal crowds bellowed vociferously not "God Save the Queen!" but that grand old Dutch cheer, "Hold the Sea! HOLD...
Basically the Heimwehr demanded as the only alternative to revolution, that the Austrian Constitution be amended to strengthen the authority of the Cabinet and curb the influence of the potent Socialist element in Vienna. Since a two-thirds majority in Parliament is needed to amend the Constitution and since Socialist Deputies number over one-third, their opposition has always blocked all such amendments. Last week the Heimwehr's truculent Reichspost-official mouthpiece of the strongest man in Austria, stern, bald, beak-nosed onetime Chancellor Ignaz Seipel-proposed a bullying solution of the Constitutional issue: Let Parliament be convened...
Blusteringly, Dr. Julius Deutsch, Socialist leader of the Schutzbund countered the Reichspost. "Let them try it," he cried. "Wherever Parliament is removed there will be enough democrats ready to defend the Constitution and democracy...