Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sole Saar member of the League Commission submitted a minority report, declared that 2,000 or even more mercenaries from abroad could not keep order during the plebiscite. In the Saar Landesrat, a parliament without powers, deputies of the so-called German Front rose in a body last week and marched out as a direct affront to President Knox. They accused him of permitting French papers in the Saar "to defame and vilify the late President von Hindenburg." Not without foundation, this charge referred to an item in the SaarbrÜcken Volksstimme which closed its report of the Feldmarschall...
Shortly after Parliament adjourned last week President Runciman's efforts to stimulate Anglo-German trade received a sharp setback. A Lancashire textile delegation sent to Berlin under Sir George Holden with the cooperation of the Board of Trade reported most adversely on German credit. Promptly in Manchester the Empire's leading cotton spinners announced that they will sell no more yarn to Germany, that as a result they must throw out of work at least 10.000 skilled spinning operatives in Lancashire, 40,000 other Britons, directly or indirectly employed in cotton milling...
...When] we capture a Parliamentary majority in the next election, we will certainly confer upon the Government the complete power of action which we believe necessary. This is not tyranny because Parliament will be able to dismiss the Government by a vote of censure if it abuses that power...
...your love of France. When I began my labors last February interior and exterior peace was threatened. To avert immediate danger we were forced to the recourse of extraordinary parliamentary procedure. [Gastounet forced Chamber and Senate to vote him power to put through the budget by decree] Thanks to Parliament we have balanced the budget; effected fiscal reforms; so improved our trade position that since March 1 500 million francs in gold have entered France. We have averted the danger of inflation and consequent bank closings. Because we have restored the health of the State's finances we have...
...days later Communist Deputies in the Dutch Parliament demanded a debate on the Amsterdam riots and the issue that is breeding trouble: reduction by Her Majesty's Government of dole payments to an average of $6 per unemployed family per week. Boomed Premier Dr. Hendrik Colijn, "We do not consent to debate this issue." By a vote of 58 to 24 he was upheld and scowling Dutch proletarians cursed their Queen...