Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this week Secretary Hudson, badgered by the press and politicians, was once reported on the point of resigning. The Prime Minister, tranquil as ever, appeared before Parliament to explain. The Hudson-Wohlthat discussions were "private" and "unofficial" and the Cabinet knew nothing about them in advance, the Prime Minister reiterated. The Secretary and the foreign trade expert were simply discussing how international confidence could be restored, and naturally they mentioned international trade, barter agreements, exchange restrictions, import quotas. But there was "nothing unusual" in the talks and certainly no loan was proposed...
...massed at weak frontiers, conferences of Generals will be held, inspired stories will be printed telling of fleets of German planes ready to take off and blast Paris and London to bits with newly invented high-pressure bombs. Last week British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, announcing the date of Parliament's adjournment for a three months' vacation, boasted that "there is every indication that Britain's newly regained power is restoring confidence to Europe." In showing off that power the British Government was also showing Führer Hitler that two can play at his game...
...show that Londoners no longer need to live in deadly fear of air raids, the City of Westminster (where Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Whitehall, Buckingham Palace are situated) opened for inspection eight elaborate systems of concrete-lined, covered trenches...
British Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald last May presented to Parliament a White Paper that Jews angrily attacked as a betrayal of the pledge to maintain a Jewish Homeland in Palestine. The British guaranteed Palestine Arabs a permanent majority position in Palestine, with promises of ultimate independence. Jewish immigration was limited to 75,000 spread over the next five years, after which it will be prohibited...
...Boer warrior, a British officer who was a newspaper correspondent in Cuba just before the Spanish-American War, an outstanding member of Herbert Asquith's War Cabinet until he organized the catastrophic Gallipoli campaign, Winston Churchill has remained the brightest, most mercurial and (sometimes) most effective member of Parliament...