Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bechuanaland's open-air Kgotla (Parliament) was not in session, but a quorum of tribal representatives was lounging in the sun when the tribe's Chief-designate arrived, arm in arm with his new wife. Up jumped the tribesmen and squarely faced the young bride, the former Ruth Williams, a London typist. "Balulubela!" shouted the tribesmen...
When Churchill battled Herbert Morrison over a relatively unimportant issue (whether or not Laborite William Whiteley should be elected to an Assembly vice presidency), the world saw an important spectacle: the political tussles of something very like an international parliament. In the corridor outside the assembly hall, in plain view of all Europe, Churchill grabbed the lapels of Liberal Lord Layton, whom he backed against Whiteley. "If you rat on me now in spite of our 40 years' friendship," hissed Churchill, "I will never speak to you again." Tory delegates patrolled the corridors, lobbying for Layton. Two Danes asked...
...about the cost of remodeling 124-year-old Clarence House for Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.* Later, he broadcast the gossip on the ABC's News of Tomorrow program; the repairs, he said, would cost about $1,000,000, or five times the sum appropriated for it by Parliament. (Minister of Works Charles Key denied that the original appropriation would be "materially exceeded.") The amount spent on ventilators in the kitchen and a chandelier in the library, cried Communist Kennedy, would have built homes for 150 workers...
Mario Scelba sat impassive, surveying the battlefield with agate eyes. It was the worst brawl the Italian Parliament had seen in a long time. Some believed the Communists had deliberately started the fight. Said Il Popolo: "... A deliberate maneuver to debase the dignity and efficiency of Parliament...
Next week Churchill leaves for the ten-nation European Council at Strasbourg-the first step toward forming a European Parliament, one of Churchill's pet projects. The day he checks out of the Grand Hotel, an old parliamentary enemy, Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan, is scheduled to arrive. Bevan's party has reserved six rooms at the Grand...