Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain, however, they do things differently. Last week Secretary for War Leslie Hore-Belisha, the man who is rated the livest live wire in the Chamberlain Cabinet, rose in Parliament to declare that the antiaircraft equipment of London during last September's crisis was in an utterly chaotic state. Mr. Hore-Belisha added many unpleasant details...
...that just such guns were in order has been one of Mr. Hore-Belisha's special responsibilities for the past year. Furthermore, had a Hyde Park soap-boxer, any British newspaper publisher or even any member of Parliament revealed such a horrendous condition, he would have been clapped in jail under the Official Secrets Act. What happened to Mr. Hore-Belisha was nothing. His Government immediately got the second vote of confidence in two days (355-to-130), and the War Secretary prepared to send a "simple memorandum" of instructions to section commanders about how to behave in future...
Nevertheless, many were the indications that, regardless of how skillfully the Government had handled the matter in Parliament, the Chamberlain Cabinet had not heard the last of the "air-raids precautions scandal." Thousands received gas masks of the wrong size. There were grave doubts whether they would be effective against even mustard gas. Most of the trenches were pathetically shallow and inadequate. There was profiteering in sandbags and shovels...
...Keep your local parliament, with its local powers, if you wish," Eamon de Valera told Ulster. "The Government of Eire is willing to forego the ideal solution of having one parliament only. We are willing for Northern Ireland to have its own local legislature in Belfast-providing Northern Ireland representatives enter an All-Ireland Parliament at Dublin...
...Bold, quiet Ivar Kreuger seemed to be so powerful, with his 24 match monopolies, his loans to governments totaling $400,000,000, that when he crudely forged $100,000,000 worth of Italian bonds, nobody examined them. When he committed suicide the Swedish Parliament assembled, the Bank for International Settlements met, the head of the Esthonian match monopoly killed himself, Author Marcosson, whose laudatory interview was appearing in the Satevepost, was thunderstruck...