Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Council of National Defense on Easter Sunday. Nor did any ordinary crisis cause Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to break a well-earned fishing holiday in Aberdeenshire to hurry back to London and summon for the first time since the World War a full Cabinet session for Easter Monday. Parliament was also convened in special session...
Next day Lord Stanhope appeared early at No. 10 Downing Street for a 4O-minute interview with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Later both went to Parliament. In the House of Commons Opposition members emphatically wanted to know: 1) what Lord Stanhope's revelations meant; 2) how the Government could justify such a censorship of the press. Deputy Labor Leader Arthur Greenwood pointedly asked Mr. Chamberlain if he thought Lord Stanhope was a "fit person to hold an important office...
...camouflage, says Mr. Stafford, is a flat-roofed building in wooded countryside, over which a continuation of the woods may be painted; hardest is a tall building by a river, especially one with a big smokestack. Impossible to make look like something else are the Gothic-towered Houses of Parliament...
...time the election was held last week, external pressure had molded the lump of lard back into one solid piece. Belgians were so frightened by what happened to an internally weak Czecho-Slovakia that they crowded to the polls to elect a Parliament of unity, moderation, stability. Most extremist parties lost seats while the moderate Liberals and Catholics gained. Socialists lost more than a quarter of their strength, and the fascist Rexists were almost completely wiped out. Even Eupen, Malmédy and Saint Vith, supposedly ardent pro-Nazi districts nearest Germany, voted 55% nationalist and anti-German...
...unification: Dr. Martens resigned from the Academy. He announced his resignation at one o'clock the afternoon of election day-just when the polls closed, so as not to influence the vote but in plenty of time to remove his irksome issue from Belgian politics before the new Parliament meets...