Word: parliament
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Down beflagged streets jammed with half a million cheering Danes drove the sternly smiling monarch and the royal family. Inside ancient Christiansborg Palace, in a ceremony devoid of pomp but charged with emotion, the King ceremoniously opened the new Parliament convened by Premier Vilhelm Buhl. More than once his voice almost broke...
Coalition Set Up. The effective coalition of these peoples brought modern civilization through-battered and partly destroyed, but in triumph. And last week, even while its enemies succumbed in Europe, in San Francisco a parliament of the victors was groping toward a stronger and better civilized world. How crude were their efforts, how uncertain their vision was all too evident. Yet men everywhere were so painfully aware of the imperfections of the civilization which had triumphed that perhaps they underrated the triumph's decisiveness...
...Works Duncan Sandys, announced that V-1 was licked. Before they stopped coming on March 27, 1,050 rockets had killed 2,754 people, seriously injured 6,523, damaged an untold number of buildings (including a million-dollar cinema at Marble Arch). Last week Churchill was asked in Parliament if he had an announcement to make about V2. Mindful of Duncan Sandys' unfortunate experience, he answered: "They have ceased." Then he sat down...
...Prime Minister got up as casually as a man about to give his trousers a hitch. "I should like to make a statement on the winding up of [Parliament's] business," he said. As William Lyon Mackenzie King droned on, no one paid much attention. Then, suddenly, the Prime Minister stopped droning. Crisply, he read an announcement: "The Governor General ... is willing to approve ... a general election on June...
There were no fancy curlicues in the postwar picture that Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe painted for Parliament last week. Conservatively com posed, the Liberal Government's economic canvas looked like a vote-catcher...