Word: parliament
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...recess of the English Parliament lasted six weeks. The day on which the houses met again is one of the most remarkable epochs in our history (October, 1641). From that day dates the corporate existence of the two great parties which have ever since alternately governed the country. In one sense, indeed, the distinction which then became obvious had always existed, and always must exist. For it has its origin in diversities of temper, of understanding, and of interest, which are found in all societies, and which will be found till the human mind ceases to be drawn in opposite...
...Finns were first conquered by the Swedes in 1157. Peter the Great and Charles XII partitioned Finland and in 1809 Russia seized the entire country, which then became a grand duchy with a Parliament of its own and wide autonomous rights. In 1905 the Finns went on a national strike against the Tsar's usurpation of their rights, and unprecedentedly won. The Red Terror that came with the 1917 Russian Bolshevik revolution was bad enough: the White Guard Terror which followed was even worse. The Finns are therefore used to trouble...
Late that night the Finnish Parliament met. Particular Finnish targets of Soviet abuse had been Premier Aimo Cajander...
...Oslo last week the Nobel Peace Prize Committee of the Norwegian Parliament announced that it will make no 1939 award, recalled that during World War I the award was given only once, in 1917 to the International Committee of the Red Cross...
...have a fight on their hands, a fight against powerful forces. Just what these forces are has become apparent through recent developments in England. In that country, Liberals, Laborites, and left-wing Conservatives have in the past month brought a demand for world federalism into the august halls of Parliament. In pushing the government to make constructive plans for peace, they have made it clear that they feel the first step must be a renunciation of much of England's national sovereignty and empire. On December 5, last Tuesday, Lord Halifax rose in Commons to quash their proposals: "We only...