Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keener interest to Washington was a one-man social performance put on between the Roosevelts' parties by Captain Anthony Eden of England. Continuing his "looking and learning" visit to the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 19), he went to Washington as an ordinary member of Parliament, but popular excitement could not have been greater had he still been Foreign Secretary. The press mobbed him at Union Station. Women workers at the State Department and White House left their desks and cubbyholes to gather in adulating clusters around...
Meanwhile, all "stateless" Ukrainians in Germany were asked to register at a recently opened Ukrainian "confidential office." The number of Ukrainian broadcasts from German stations increased and throughout Ukrainian districts appeared new radio sets ostensibly supplied by Nazi agents. Ukrainian deputies to the Polish Parliament dared to ask for "self-government" for their districts...
...patrol the Paris streets. An infantry company clumped to the City Hall, nine truckloads of troops surrounded the Chamber of Deputies building. Other patrols stacked arms on important street corners and public squares. The authority of the Premier of France to govern by decree power granted him by Parliament was about to be disputed in a 24-hour general strike called by the French Confederation of Labor. The Republic's troops were posted to see that the Premier's authority was upheld...
Emerging from his trial as the strongest Premier France has had since Pierre Laval, Edouard Daladier called Parliament to sit this week, confident that the Centre and Right would respond to any reasonable demands he might make to implement his "Three Year Plan" of internal and external bulwarking. And to the French people he broadcast: "What triumphed today was the principle of the Republic itself-its respect for law, its respect for the right to work and its respect for the nation. The French people showed that they realized that their liberties were not threatened by the Government...
...diverse peoples of Yugoslavia into a working unit, scrupulously conferring with Croatian leaders. But within a year all thought of appeasement had gone by the board. Typical Yugoslav election is now cynically described as one in which the "opposition gets the votes, but the Government the seats in Parliament" But the well-disciplined, obedient Army, best in the Balkans, its mettle proved time " again in the World War, can be counted on to keep internal order for Paul...