Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trade, the British equivalent of the U. S. Department of Commerce will be spent in Britain to buy munitions, raw materials, war supplies. About $30,000,000 can be used to buy goods that Britain has imported and is willing to reexport. The bill is expected to pass Parliament this week. The British did not try to disguise the projected loans as anything but political. The Nazi official news agency called it a "coldblooded attempt to buy European cannon for the benefit of the British armament industry...
...this dirge M. Daladier, preparing to meet the situation without parliament, packed off his 618 Deputies for summer vacations which, he warned, "may be briefer than you think." He then had them herded into the lobbies, where a new gas mask enclosed in a grey-green tin box was issued to each Deputy, clinching the points of the Premier's speech...
Sanctions? As the mounting list of indignities reached the light of print in London, British ire rose. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, asked in Parliament what economic reprisals were planned, answered: "I do not think we have yet reached that stage." But the Prime Minister did refer to the "high-handed and intolerably insulting treatment of British subjects" in Tientsin and complained that the Japanese military had made the Tientsin incident a "pretext for far-reaching and quite inadmissible claims." The London Times cautiously recommended that the British Government at least look into the question of economic sanctions, and Conservative...
Deputies who were in the Army appeared in grey Hungarian campaign kit. Forty Nazi deputies, fresh from decorating Budapest's Cenotaph, rolled up to the House of Parliament in a parade of swastika-decked automobiles and clumped into the Chamber in high boots, black trousers and green shirts. Nazis who were outraged when a Jewish photographer took their picture were admonished by their leader that "propaganda comes before all." The Hungarian Life Party members, supporters of the Government, came dressed in all black uniforms. Sole mufti-clad deputy was outspoken Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky, who thinks the Government...
International Broadcasting Co. of London annoys the augustly uncommercial B. B. C. by spraying Britain, from stations on the Continent, with frankly commercial plugs for British products. Go-getting head of I. B. C. is Leonard Frank Plugge, a sleek and portly gentleman who got himself elected to Parliament from Chatham in 1935. Captain Plugge (he was a Naval Reserve and R. A. F. man during the War) not long ago bought one of London's best addresses, the Leopold de Rothschild house in Park Lane, and equipped it with radio and television in every room. Another house...