Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the noses of a Soviet Control Commission, six political parties ran 580 candidates for 200 seats in the new Eduskunta (Parliament). U.S. correspondents in Helsinki reported that all parties and candidates had complete freedom of speech and action; Finnish voters enjoyed absolute privacy at the polls...
...Parliament Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden reported: "The Soviet Government has informed the British Ambassador in Moscow . . . that to meet the wishes of the British Government they are taking steps at once to set Mme. Arcizewska free." The elderly wife of Polish Premier Tomasz Arcizewski had been arrested in Poland by the NKVD (Russian secret police). Asked if there were any reasons for her arrest, the Foreign Secretary answered: "I have been given some, but I thought in the light of the happy conclusion to my inquiries it would be better to leave it there...
...should be picked from among men who sit in the House of Commons. The meaning was unmistakable. Major James Coldwell, leader of the socialist CCF, would go. So, probably, would Gordon Graydon, Parliamentary leader of the Tories. But John Bracken, national Tory leader who is not a member of Parliament, would stay at home...
...Defense Minister Andrew G. L. Mc-Naughton, who failed to win a seat in Parliament in February's Grey North by-election (TIME, Feb. 12), would be represented in the House of Commons by able Douglas Abbott, who has been Parliamentary Assistant to Finance Minister Ilsley...
...King denied rumors that he might seek an extension of Parliament beyond the end of its legal life (April 17). Said he: "I never had any such intention...