Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aptly remarked that the King of England in his relations with his Ministers has kept three 'rights'-the right to be informed, the right to advise and the right to warn. . . . Nowadays the King always acts on the advice of his Ministers, who themselves are responsible to Parliament." This bucket of juridical cold water flung over the new King by radio was utterly unprecedented. First advice to Edward VIII last week came from the heads of the British fighting services. They advised His Majesty to promote himself retroactively, as of the day after George V's death...
...cheek subtlety. When the doddering idiot of a king is told to account for the presence of the soldier class by explaining that they are the conquering subjects, he innocently announces that they conquer the subjects. And when this same monarch is called upon to speak to his pugilistic parliament, his crafty prime minister starts a phonograph going beneath the royal robes. This is quite impressive until the minister in his vehemence breaks the record and the needle keeps repeating in the same rut. And when the august assembly convenes to determine Gulliver's fate, a free...
After this great inspirational speech Japan's Parliament was dissolved by Imperial Order and a general election set for Feb. 20. The Home Ministry, commonly said in Japan to "make the election," estimated cheerily that the two great civilian parties, the Seiyukai and the Minseito, will each win approximately the same number of seats, and that the balance of power will be held by the militarists' small and comparatively new Showakai Party. Although not exactly translatable, Showakai is a Japanese word strongly implying that it is the Party's divinely appointed duty to usher...
Britain & France. With the French Parliament reconvening this week. Premier Pierre Laval snatched a four-day holiday on his country estate, a medieval barony with castle, drawbridge and moat which this earthy son of a butcher has bought with the millions of francs he has earned as a lawyer...
...stayed where it was. Less mutineers than strikers, the sailors respectfully but firmly took over their ships, put the most unpopular officers ashore. Followed some delicate negotiations between the Admiralty and the sailors' delegates. Finally an agreement was reached. But the promised reforms had to go through Parliament, and the suspicious sailors, irked by the delay, mutinied again. This time there was bloodshed. Thoroughly alarmed, the Government rushed the changes into legal form, got a royal pardon for the reformers. Everything ended happily: many an unpopular officer was relieved or transferred and not a single mutineer was punished...