Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Give the world organization's parliament of nations, the General Assembly, some authority over the Security Council, which the Big Three would put completely beyond the Assembly's control...
Fifteen ex-Europeans in the U.S. last week raised this warning against Yalta, Dumbarton Oaks, the whole trend of Big Three power-thinking. Their alternative: a European confederation of independent states, linked by a continental Parliament, Cabinet, President and Army...
...gallery of Pan-European supporters. Among them: Austrian Novelist-Playwright Franz Werfel (The Song of Bernadette, The Twilight of a World, Jacobowski and the Colonel); Fernando de los Rios, onetime Ambassador of Republican Spain in Washington; French Playwright Henry Bernstein; Nellos Camellopoulos, onetime member of the Greek Parliament; Businessman Edouard Müller (Nestlé Chocolate), formerly of Switzerland. Said they: only a continental confederation can "coordinate the common political, economic and military interests of Europe and the personal rights of all Europeans...
General Charles de Gaulle sent word to the fuming, frustrated Consultative Assembly: gladly would he confer with them about his Ministers. Into his presence trooped some three dozen leaders of France's advisory parliament...
...session of Parliament which opened this week would, Mr. King hoped, be short. But with San Francisco in the offing, a parliamentary discussion of Canadian foreign policy seemed inevitable. As a starter, Mr. King was ready with the names of Canadian delegates. Some would be representatives of the people: CCF Leader Major James Coldwell; Gordon Graydon, Tory leader in Parliament; Justice Minister (and Quebecker) Louis Stephen St. Laurent; Senator James H. King. A woman would be chosen, too. Some of the delegates would be experts-men like Hume Wrong and Norman Robertson, suave and able top-rankers in the External...