Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Members of the Upper House of Parliament are greatly disturbed over a recent British court decision that children conceived by artificial insemination are illegitimate. (In the United States, the artificially inseminated children are legitimate if both parents consent to the operation, Zimmerman stated...
Russia's rubber-stamp parliament, the Supreme Soviet, met last week in the great assembly hall of the Kremlin. At Stalin's right hand as he entered the hall was V. M. Molotov, who a week before had been "released" as Minister of Foreign Affairs. With Stalin, too, was A. I. Mikoyan who had been released as Minister of Foreign Trade. The three together were cheered. Also present, in a government box off to the side, was the new Foreign Minister, Andrei Vishinsky...
...Atlantic Pact. She has fought it tooth & nail, but only with defensive acts of desperation, e.g., international threats of Communist treason. In Rome last week, when Premier De Gasperi announced his cabinet's decision to join the pact, a small mob of Communists in front of the Parliament building shouted, "Down with warmongers and wars!" and "There are pillars in Rome whereon to hang traitors!" They were joined by neo-Fascist youths (members of the Italian Social Movement). The neo-Fascists objected to the pact because it "betrayed the national interest," the Communists, because it served the national interest...
...secret session, the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) voted 118-to-11 last week in favor of the government's decision to join the Atlantic Pact discussions in Washington. The no votes were cast by the Storting's eleven Communists...
...Elected representatives to a common Parliament...