Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whom the U.S. State Department had blown hot & cold for a week, Halvard Lange, Norway's Foreign Minister, headed home for Oslo remarkably unruffled. Lange had been sent to the U.S. by the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) to find out just what it would mean to Norway-put & take-to join in the proposed North Atlantic defense pact...
...home behind the royal castle, relaxed in an easy chair, and drafted the reply in longhand on two foolscap sheets. He submitted it to Premier Einar Gerhardsen (his cellmate during the war in the Nazis' Sachsenhausen concentration camp), and to the foreign affairs committee of the Storting (Parliament...
...Mercante did not try to stop, he denounced the plan to bring Perón's portrait into the chamber. "Neither in France, Great Britain nor the U.S. has it ever occurred to anybody to place a portrait of the chief of state in the halls of parliament," he shouted...
...even in their years of dictatorship did Mussolini and Hitler dare display their pictures in their stage-managed parliaments. I was about to say that I did not know of a single case where this is so, but I am mistaken. There is a small country in the Antilles, a small, unfortunate country in which the President re-elects himself time after time-the republic of Santo Domingo. Its national parliament is presided over by the photograph of Dictator General Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo." Cries of "May bien, muy bien" and loud applause rang through the chamber...
...illustrate his point Krayer recalled the "Reichstag Fire Trial" of 1934. The Nazis allegedly burned down the Reichstag, Berlin meeting place of German Parliament and then utilized the resulting national panic to take over the government. Once in power they arrested a Dutchman, charging him with setting the fire. The defendant made a complete confession in court and was convicted, although most of the world believed him innocent. It was generally thought that the Nazis used drugs to obtain the confession, but even the closest observers couldn't prove it, Krayer remembered...