Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cloth. Great was the dismay of the Lords a month ago when the woolsack was found to contain common horsehair. No record of the change had been made. Last weekend, with the peers away for their Whitsuntide recess, the Lord Great Chamberlain, who has charge of the Houses of Parliament, ordered the woolsack ripped open, stuffed with real wool...
Next morning, motoring to Germany with William F. Rueff, U. S. art student resident in Munich, a young British journalist and a Sudeten German deputy in the Czech Parliament, Unity's car was brought to a halt by military police in a military area...
Settlement? Evidence that the Czech leaders want time to consider Henlein's demands, perhaps to accept his "autonomy" solution, was seen last week when they postponed for a fortnight a session of Parliament that is to tackle the problem...
...filled with Czech appointees. Among the 1,500 municipalities voting last week only 48 were predominantly German. At last reports most of them had not compiled results but it was generally admitted that the Nazis had upped their representation. In four Sudeten German cities the Nazis increased their municipal parliament seats from 69 to 105. In Prague, the National Socialist Party, to which Eduard Benes himself belonged before becoming President, received a boost of 30% in its representation...
...Germany incessantly swooping over the Czechoslovak frontier and droning above Sudeten Germans last week, plug-uglies of the Nazi minority indulged with impunity in terroristic acts against non-Nazi Sudeten Germans. In vain a representative of the Sudeten German Social Democratic loyalists, Deputy Wenzel Jaksch, rose in the Czechoslovak Parliament at Prague to cry, "I demand protection for our democratic Germans against the terrorism of the Nazis...