Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ailing Ernie Bevin, Britain's explosive Foreign Secretary, pulled a hot potato out of the fire in a foreign policy debate in Parliament and tossed it into the lap of his old wartime cabinet colleague Winston Churchill. Britain's present plight in Germany, said Bevin, was the direct result of the "unconditional surrender" policy adopted at Casablanca by Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Winnie passed the buck in a hurry. The policy, he said, was all Roosevelt's idea; he himself had not been consulted before it was proclaimed...
Between 20 and 30 churches have been seriously battered in the Palestine war. Total damage to church property since 1948 has been estimated at between $900,000 and $2,000,000, and Christian officials are pressing for full reparations. The Israeli government has promised special consideration when its Parliament considers a bill for the settlement of all war damages. Said Premier David Ben-Gurion: Israel will pay for church damage "where we are found to be responsible. I couldn't imagine any possible conflict between us and the Catholic Church...
Chancellor (Oxford's rotating presidency), stood for Parliament as an "Independent Progressive," and in 1945 became a Labor peer...
Without his father's counsel and his Queen's popular touch, Leopold began to get himself into stupid situations. He insisted on writing his own speeches about colonial policy and economic affairs. Politicians groused that in England the constitutional monarch left speeches to his ministers. Leopold antagonized Parliament by refusing to grant its members the customary honors and titles...
Sweepers to help them. In 1788, partly because of Hanway's appeals, Parliament set the minimum age for climbing-boys at eight years...