Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Member Kirkwood began to welsh when he complained that farming on Jura would mean giving up Parliament. Replied Lady Astor: "Nothing is further from my mind than to be responsible for depriving Parliament of your services...
...minute procession to Buckingham Palace the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose will ride in the open landau with their father and mother. There will be no formal decorations, but residents along the way are invited to display "spontaneous" decorations, and M.P.s will gather outside the Houses of Parliament to cheer. State business-discussions with the Prime Minister of the international situation, rearmament, and the date of the general election, ceremonies and a speech at the Guildhall -must come before the well-deserved vacation at Balmoral Castle in Scotland...
While the Rumanian Parliament last week interested itself in uniforms (see above), in Hungary legislators were concerned not only with uniforms but salutes. In Budapest eight years ago fashionable
...business suits and hornrimmed glasses. Today single-breasted coats with peak lapels have given way to snappy uniforms and shiny boots, and when the newly elected Kepviselohdz (Chamber of Deputies) convened last week in its wing of the six acres of Gothic magnificence that house the Hungarian Parliament, the scene was less like a meeting of a cornfed legislature than a kraut-eating military congress...
That the state will be a strictly authoritarian one could not be doubted after the oath which was sprung last week on the members of the Grand Council of the Falange Espanola Tradidonalista, the new Fascist substitute for Parliament. Raimundo Fernandez Cuesta, secretary general of Spain's only party, demanded "blind obedience" to Generalissimo Franco, ended by proposing an oath: "We proclaim our inflexible will to obey unconditionally the orders of our Caudillo. As proof of that sacred promise, let the Councillors of the Falange swear with me before God always to obey the Caudillo and those who receive...