Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening of Parliament by George VI, famed and beloved old Field Marshal Lord Milne sounded off, after the Speech from the Throne, against mollycoddle notions that the German people are only dupes and victims of the Nazis. Stanch old Lord Milne, who proudly recalled that he fought under Queen Victoria, keynoted that he believes every nation gets the kind of Government its people want or deserve and that the Germans have that now. "There is a deep strain of brutality in the German nation!" he boomed, roundly begged to differ with the large school of intellectual-liberals who said during...
...French custom-democracy-bobbed up again last week in Paris, much to the embarrassment of the Government of Premier Edouard Daladier. For over a year the Premier has ruled his country with a firm-and sometimes heavy-hand by the simple expedient of persuading the French Parliament to grant him powers to issue decrees having the force of law. Before September M. Daladier's favorite argument for such powers was the deepening European crisis. Since September he has had an even better selling point...
...Daladier eight months ago expired, and he jauntily went before the Chamber of Deputies to ask for a renewal. This time the Premier wanted lawmaking powers not for a specified time, as has always been granted, but for the duration of a war which may last months or years. Parliament would have no set routine for reviewing and approving his decrees...
...this smacked unpalatably of dictatorship-and at a time when France was supposed to be fighting for Democracy. Before voting the Premier his renewed powers they forced him publicly and formally to disown any intention of lessening Parliamentary prestige and control and to agree to "submit" his decrees to Parliament's "judgment" whenever practical...
...that now French laborers are forced to work overtime for no extra pay and cannot effectively protest against either conditions or wages-all these things and others have caused widespread and deep-seated distrust. The Premier's argument last week that he must have a blank check from Parliament because "democracies find themselves in the presence of other regimes which can act rapidly and in secret" had a cold reception...