Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Nov. 9, 1936), and for the first meeting this week of the first Parliamentary session to be opened by King George VI, there was every reason why the Chamberlain Cabinet must score quickly a triumph of some sort, preferably in foreign affairs. It would not do to have Parliament convene for the winter with His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs actually cutting the figure he was shown cutting last week in a London Evening Standard cartoon by No. 1 British Cartoonist David Low. In this Mr. Anthony Eden, whose toe is being stepped...
...civil war in Spain is "the nerve centre of international politics" according to British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden last week, and on this theory it was arranged to window dress the opening of Parliament in London (see p. 25) with a British diplomatic victory scored in the London International Committee on Non-intervention in Spain...
...distract public opinion from this, Herr Henlein made a much-advertised visit to England, returned last week to announce that he had found "widespread sympathy" for all Germans in London, precipitated a free fight between Sudetendeutsch members of the Czechoslovak Parliament, who had come to hail Leader Henlein, and Czechoslovak police who did not know that these zealots who tried to break through their lines were persons with parliamentary immunity. The cracked crowns of the deputies were to be investigated by Parliament committee, but Adolf Hitler's press was screaming with such rage at latest reports that Eduard Benes...
Stalin launched the Second Five-Year Plan which is now under way, says Mr. Lyons, by having the Soviet parliament adopt measures which "redefined Socialism to mean merely state monopoly of all branches of economy-a feudalistic serf 'socialism' undreamed of by socialist theorists and philosophers and agitators before the Soviet...
...year 1822 a high-minded little group of men led by an M. P. from Galway, Richard ("Humanity") Martin, gathered at Old Slaughter's Coffee House in London, and formed the first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In the same year they induced Parliament to pass a bill to punish persons who ''wantonly and cruelly" beat or ill-treated horses, mares, geldings, mules, asses, oxen, cows, heifers, steers, sheep...