Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 5,600,000 Belgians went to the polls this week to elect a new Parliament. They cast their ballots with Belgian calm; but one incident in Brussels revealed the social tension beneath the surface...
...Hungary's neo-Gothic Parliament building the crowd cheered as Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi stalked in to open the session. He first walked around the red-plushed row of ministerial chairs to shake hands with each cabinet minister. One of the old familiar faces was missing -that of Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk, wartime underground leader and once Hungary's dreaded Minister of the Interior. Since Rajk's name had headed the single list of candidates in his district, his election had seemed sure. When the rapporteur of the Mandate Credentials Committee omitted Rajk's name from...
...Sofia, another communist ex-hero was sliding down the slope. After bumping down in April from Vice Premier of Bulgaria to head of the National Library, Traicho Kostov has now been expelled from the party and from Parliament...
Such an inflammatory issue, if it caught on at the last minute, could reduce the Liberals' share of Quebec's important bloc of 73 seats in the 262-member parliament...
...Future. Last August Margaret came officially of age. In the eyes of Parliament, she was old enough to be a Counselor of State, along with her sister and her uncles, and govern in the King's absence. She will still have to wait three more years before she comes into her own money (a ?6,000 annual allowance from Parliament and numerous legacies), but to all intents she is a grownup, with her own suite of rooms at the palace. The yawning gap of years that separates her from her elder sister is all but closed. There is only...