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Congress appropriates $10,000 annually toward the support of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, a "parliament of man" founded 51 years ago to keep the world's legislative bodies informed about each other. Another $10,000 from Congress provides one of the juiciest bits of junket on the Washington political platter: an annual trip for a delegation to the union's meeting (last year at The Hague, this year at Oslo). A supposedly non-partisan caucus of the whole Congress picks the head of the delegation, who then, by hallowed custom, dishes out the junket to his party mates...
...British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain promptly turned down a request from Opposition Laborite Leader Clement R. Attlee to call Parliament immediately to reconsider British non-intervention policy. The Prime Minister declared any change in non-intervention would merely "prolong...
Horrified businessmen, raised on the tradition of free trade within the Empire at any rate, attended a mass meeting, appealed to Governor-General Viscount Galway to nullify the plan on grounds of unconstitutionally. Prime Minister Savage thought that over (remembering his comfortable Parliament plurality; Laborites: 54, Conservatives: 24) and then announced: "If traders petition the Governor-General on the ground that we have no authority to control trade, we will soon obtain the necessary authority...
Delegates wore linen suits, shorts, sandals and open shirts to a garden party at Parliament House-which reporters called the "most informal" in Australian history-but sweat ran down their faces. When a cooling shower fell on the party, the change was too much for Scientist Ernest Clayton Andrews, past president of the congress. He was found unconscious in a rain puddle, hospitalized...
...party united front against the Chamberlain policies. Moving spirits behind the meeting were: its chairman, tall, scented Duncan Sandys (pronounced sands), son-in-law of Winston Churchill and, like him, an independent Conservative; Randolph Churchill, florid son of Winston, who has tried and failed three times to enter Parliament; Her Grace, the Duchess of Atholl, insurgent Conservative who was recently defeated for re-election to the House of Commons; Vernon Bartlett, News Chronicle correspondent and independent M.P., whose recent election was a severe rebuke to the Government's foreign policy; Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, tradition-hating military correspondent...