Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assembly v. Conference. Last year, France and Belgium had suggested formation of a "consultative assembly" as a first step toward a Western Union parliament. The matter had been referred to a committee of five (Britain, France and the Benelux nations). The French, who took the role of the hare in the race toward union (if race it was), wanted an assembly whose delegates would directly represent their countries' population. They would vote publicly, without regard to the nations' official policies. They could not commit their governments to action; they could, however, stir up public opinion at home...
...been pressed into service to distribute identity cards to the voters. This week, over 400,000 people were expected to go to the polls to elect a Constituent Assembly. The Assembly's 120 members* in turn would write Israel's constitution and act as Israel's parliament. With the Arabs defeated, it remained to be seen how Israel's Jews, who have come together from all corners of the globe, would manage to live in one country...
...protests. They were hard at work on their grand design to oust non-Europeans from any participation in South Africa's government (TIME, Oct. 25). The latest target of their campaign was the Natives' Representative Council, which had been set up in 1936 to assist Parliament in making laws affecting Negroes. Its six government-appointed white members and 16 Negroes (twelve of them elected) formed a purely advisory body. "The N.R.C.," one of its members once said, "is like a toy telephone, with the Negroes at one end and the government at the other. We've turned...
Princess Wilhelmina, who abdicated last September as Queen of The Netherlands, finally got her pension approved by the Dutch parliament, which decided, despite grumbles from a guilder-minded minority, that 400,000 ($151,000) a year was not too much for an ex-queen who had given 50 years' service...
...board ship"). But wretched Rudolph was soon too far gone to devote himself for long to anything. Out of a mouselike hatred for his father's regime, he wrote a number of anonymous leading articles for the liberal Neues Wiener Tagblatt; but when a radical stood up in Parliament and denounced the House of Habsburg, Rudolph reverted to type and had the man horsewhipped. He spent hours updating his "Register of Conquests"; if the lady was wellborn, she got a silver cigarette box engraved with his signature-if she was a commoner, it bore only his coat of arms...