Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time since the beginning of the Sudeten Crisis, Czechoslovakia's Parliament met last week. Although the legislators were substantially those who sat in Parliament before its adjournment, their party line-up was drastically changed. Pressed by Germany to remold" Czechoslovakia along totalitarian lines, the Government, five days before the session met. ordered all parties supporting it to dissolve, join one big State Party for National Unity. The Czech Agrarian and Czech National Socialist groups, the Fascist National League and part of the Czech People's Catholic Party complied. The minority Socialists, Communists and dissident Catholic deputies...
First act of the National Unity group was to introduce a bill which, when passed, will permit the President to do away with Parliament, rule by Cabinet decrees. Thus the last trace of Czechoslovak democracy will be wiped out and the nation will become a semi-dictatorial State...
...went to England to sell Canadian bonds. Three years later, his rich Conservative customers asked him to stand for Parliament...
...until he had been out of Parliament 15 years did Lord Beaverbrook see his old hobby horse E. F. T. come home a winner. Taking the stump with an alarm bell which rang every minute to indicate that $5,000 worth of foreign foods had gone into British mouths, he ranted through the general elections of 1931 with such good effect that Stanley Baldwin took over part of E. F. T. in the Conservative Party platform...
...Majesty King George VI last week opened a new session of Parliament. In his Speech from the Throne in the House of Lords, His Majesty announced, among other things, that he and Queen Elizabeth were "happy to accept" the invitation of President Roosevelt to visit the U. S. during their scheduled trip to Canada next spring...