Word: parliament
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...attack, for he had entered the Cabinet to make the Government's policy of no-overseas-conscription work, and almost at once had adopted a policy of conscription. Then, during the heated Grey North by-election campaign (TIME, Feb. 12), in which he was seeking a seat in Parliament, Minister McNaughton stumbled over his own security regulations. He said publicly that U-boats were torpedoing Allied ships in the Atlantic "day by day." Eyebrows were lifted. They were lifted higher when, after his Grey North defeat, McNaughton seemed to be a poor loser. Said he: "We are . . . congratulating...
...London, public indignation forced Home Secretary Herbert Morrison to name a committee to inquire into reports of bad moral conditions and cruelty in institutions and foster homes. Some 50 members of Parliament met with him to decide what to do. Magistrate George Reakes of Wallasey shook his fist: "It is no use fining these beasts. We must imprison them before they learn...
...British troops to defend the Greek Government against ELAS. The press was almost unanimously critical. From Athens most correspondents reported the struggle as if ELAS was the defender of Greek liberty and the British troops were little better than Nazis. Twice Churchill had to defend his course in Parliament...
Died. Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Lord Charnwood, 80, English biographer of Americans (Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt), one-shot detective story writer (Tracks in the Snow), five-term Liberal Member of Parliament; in England...
Syria and its national liberation movement was much on the French mind last week. For under the ambitious leadership of shrewd President Shukri Bey Kuwatly, the Syrian parliament had voted funds and conscription for a Syrian national army. One fruit of General de Gaulle's visit to Moscow was believed to have been a Russian guarantee of France's colonial empire. Syria's military stirrings gave France a queasy feeling under her colonial belt; they might endanger the whole French position in the Middle East...