Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since an act of Parliament in 1935, it has been permissible for works from the British national collections to go on loan abroad. Last week's exhibition, however, was the first outside of England to which the National Gallery, the Tate Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum have contributed their finest paintings. The King, moreover, made a unique exception in allowing loans from the Royal collections. To this generosity the French responded by clearing five great rooms in the Louvre and restoring them to the splendor of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Insured for a total...
More significant still are probably his comments on the government careers of those who have gone through college training. Party work in Parliament (regardless of the special label) still holds a strong attraction, while the "clever and cautious people" and those responsive to the prospect of administration activity prefer the civil service. For his American friends Mr. Walton suggests, however, that it "took centuries" to build the British public service tradition...
Next morning's papers carried the Eden letter of resignation, addressed to "My Dear Prime Minister," giving his reason: "I cannot recommend to Parliament a policy with which I am not in agreement." In a letter to "My Dear Anthony" Chamberlain accepted...
Belgium's Fascist party, the Rexists, led by Léon Degrelle, frankly resorts to burglary and theft to obtain private papers with which to smear its opponents. Such tactics drove from office Premier Paul van Zeeland, although he later vindicated himself in the Belgian Parliament. By last week Rexists had turned their attention to Minister of Health Arthur Wauters...
...Corporative State members of the parliament represent not constituencies but classes of citizens, factory workers, farmers, employers, physicians, etc. who form guilds to elect them...