Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister Andrew G. L. McNaughton. The voters had heard Tory orators toss flat charges of inadequate reinforcements and shipboard mutinies among draftees. General McNaughton had denounced such stories as "lies," and three times Prime Minister King had asked for McNaughton's election. The riding had returned Liberals to Parliament in 1935 and 1940. But this time it was different...
Almost out of the question now was another session of Parliament. Mr. King himself said there would be no purpose in holding one without Minister McNaughton in the House. He would, he said, give ''immediate attention" to the necessity for a general election...
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...
...Twenty-two Ministers, nine Royal Counselors, 66 ex-Deputies of the Bulgarian Sobranye (Parliament...
...plead for support for 500 Liberal candidates in Britain's general election, slated for this year. Said Lady Violet: "We fight for power." If the election race between the Conservative and Labor Parties should be close, and if the Liberal Party could win 50 or 60 seats in Parliament, they would have the next best thing to power-a balance of power...