Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election of Sir William Beveridge to Parliament (TIME, Nov. 20) constitutes one of time's quainter revenges, for Sir William is Master of the Oxford College that expelled Shelley for advocating the ideas for which Sir William is now honored...
...members fidgeted. They sat late, for they were going home for Christmas and they wanted to be off. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King wound up his speech: "No succor could come to the enemy equal to that he will receive from anything that goes to show that a Parliament in ... the British Commonwealth ... is not united in support of its fighting men. . . ." Then (1:20 a.m.) the black-robed clerk finally rose, polled the members, bowed to the Speaker's chair and announced: "Ayes 143, Nays...
...Parliament and the country were stunned: Mr. King had suddenly abandoned his lifelong opposition to conscription. Only three days before, McNaughton had insisted that the voluntary system of obtaining needed troops should be "given a fair trial." Only one day before, the Prime Minister himself had reiterated: "I do not believe that [conscription] is necessary." Terrific public pressure had forced him to change his mind...
Before the Premier's office in Brussels unarmed Resistance men & women shouted: "Resign!" Before the Parliament Buildings, guarded by gendarmes with fixed bayonets, marched noisy hecklers. Despite the ban on mass rallies, excited crowds assembled in the Cirque Royal, tumultuously cheered the Communist ex-ministers, denounced the Government measures against the Resistance movement...
When Sir William Henry Beveridge released his 200,000-word "cradle-to-grave" plan to the British public, he warned that the plan was not financially feasible unless Great Britain could bring full employment to its people in peacetime. Last week the 65-year-old professor, recently elected to Parliament, detailed the policies Great Britain must follow if it hopes to provide full employment...