Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fray. At week's end, the street cleaners scornfully rejected an offer of a 10,000-lire bonus, held out for 15,000, Palmiro Togliatti appeared in the Chamber of Deputies. He wore his suavest air and his famous blue, double-breasted serge suit. Said he piously: "Parliament is the center of democratic life and it is bound to a concept of tolerance between men who fight for their own ideas...
...Togliatti was feeling tiptop for the first time since he was laid low by a would-be assassin last July 14. He presided at a meeting of the Communist Central Committee, addressed a wildly cheering political meeting of 150,000, and expected to go back to his seat in Parliament...
...until I read London's rationed four and six-page daily newspapers did I fully appreciate the great amount of information available to the U.S. public through the American press. In turn, one of the healthiest signs of Britain's recovery is the present criticism in Parliament and the press of the government policy of treating newsprint as a commodity without further significance to a democratic society. Under current newsprint allocations Britain's newspapers cannot provide adequate news services...
...demands), Pearson has a personality which would be worth thousands of votes to any politician. But he has long been loth to leave the safe berth of civil service. The cabinet post assured Pearson of a pay boost, from $15,000 to $19,000 when he gets elected to Parliament. It also assured him of a pay cut, to $6,000 as a mere M.P., should the Liberals lose control of the government, or to zero should he be defeated...
...Good Idea." So much for Europe's economic unity, without which Western Union must fail miserably. Last week also brought a step toward political unity which was equally important. At The Hague conference on Western Union (TIME, Aug. 2), France had proposed formation of a Western European parliament. The idea had been turned down as premature by Britain's Ernie Bevin and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak. But last week France's doughty Foreign Minister Robert Schuman again went...