Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, it was a crushing defeat. In the by-election in Grey North, Ontario, the Tories this week elected stout, ham-handed Garfield Case to Parliament...
...Unwarranted and Unworthy." He pleaded for General McNaughton's election. He assailed the opposition. All through the war years, he said, he had sought to avoid "unnecessary . . . political controversy." Mr. King had hoped that McNaughton, needing a seat in Parliament, would be unopposed. Instead, the two opposition parties were stirring up controversy. This attitude in wartime, said Mr. King, was "unwarranted and unworthy." He warned that unless the two opposing candidates withdrew, "it will obviously be the duty of the Government to consider whether any useful purpose could be served by attempting to hold another session of Parliament." Even...
When Candidates Case and Godfrey stated flatly that they would not withdraw, Mr. King announced that the Grey North election would go on as scheduled. But plainly, win or lose, he was getting ready to call it a day. In Ottawa, practically everyone was betting that dissolution of Parliament was just around the corner, that Canada's next general election would probably come in the spring...
...political facts dominated Europe's news last week. One was the might and mass of Russia's rush upon Germany through Poland. The other was the voice of a 70-year-old man, defending before a Parliament of free men his course in the politics of war and liberation. Prime Minister Winston Churchill spoke primarily to Britons. But he was also addressing the U.S. and the world...
...though Parliament gave him a sweeping vote of confidence (340 to 7), as politics his speech also left many questions unanswered, many grievous doubts unresolved...