Word: parliament
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...time of this writing there's a great array of fireworks and much merry-making over most of England. It's Guy Fawkes night. Fawkes you remember was the hapless man who in 1605 tried to blow up Parliament. I'm not sure whether this celebration is an expression of a democracy's gratitude for the failure; or whether the British people are trying to make up for the disappointment by a second-best array of fireworks. Judging by the noise the latter seems the logical solution. One young Englishman asked me if our Fourth of July was a celebration...
...Ambassador to France, genial William Christian Bullitt, is regarded as the most pro-French U. S. envoy in Paris since the late Myron Herrick.* The political life of the Blum Cabinet has rested in recent weeks partly upon the success of M. Blum in persuading Parliament that Mr. Roosevelt is friendly to the French New Deal and has ordered Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to cushion and facilitate the devaluation of the franc (TIME, Oct. 5). Both Paris and Rome had the impression that Alf Landon would have tried to threaten them into resumption of payments on the French...
Died. Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, 57, famed British criminal lawyer, three weeks ago named chairman of the London Court of Sessions; after collapsing at a Greyhound Racing Association dinner at the moment he was joking about his weight (252 lb.); in London. In his only (1924) campaign for Parliament, he promised to kiss each of the 16,269 women constituents of Chelmsford, was elected...
Members of the House of Commons last week guardedly declared they were receiving so many letters from constituents objecting to the intimacy of the King & Mrs. Simpson that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin must prepare himself to be questioned soon in open Parliament as to whether or not His Majesty is resolved to marry...
Main Roads & The League. Eight black horses borrowed, as usual, from a brewery were ready to draw the King's State Coach to the opening of Parliament this week and His Majesty's valet had laid out an admiral's uniform over which he was to wear a great royal black and crimson mantle. Abruptly Edward VIII, giving the excuse that it had started to rain cancelled all the traditional British pageantry, popped into a motor car and whisked off to Whitehall through what United Press reported as "a lack of crowds considered unprecedented...