Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Time presses," he said. "Every day brings a loss of substance to the nation. Il faut en finir [Let's put an end to it]. Parliament must be dissolved . . . and elections held as soon as possible...
...Hitler did his best to exterminate them. They joined his other victims in the gas chambers. No one knows how many died thus; the gypsies were never good at bookkeeping. Now, new forces are trying to mold them into new patterns. In Bulgaria, they have their own deputy in Parliament; in Yugoslavia, they have their own party (which faithfully follows the Communist line...
Predikant to Politics. In the general elections last week, Jan Smuts's United Party-which stood for Commonwealth solidarity and relative liberalism on the race question-was nosed out by the Re-United'National Party. The Smuts party won 65 seats in the lower house of parliament; the Nationalists...
Chin jutting, arms flaying, the Jefe Maximo accused his enemies of planning dictatorship. "Their denials won't fool anybody," he shouted. "There is dictatorship when one rules by decree, infringes the constitution, betrays Parliament, proves disloyal to the people's will. The time to speak out is at hand. I won't be silenced by threats. They will have to do to me what was done to Colombia's Gaitan . . . We want peace, not war, but let no one forget we are the strongest...
...haunted by a ghost out of the past. To the rostrum stepped Fritz von Unruh, one of Germany's greatest writers (Way of Sacrifice), a Junker officer who turned pacifist. Exiled by the Nazis, he had spent nearly eight years in the U.S. His grandfather had been the parliament's presiding officer. Von Unruh reminded his listeners that again & again since 1848 Germans have trampled freedom to death in their own country. When his audience squirmed, he peered from face to face. "What did you expect to hear from me? . . . Who among us could forgive himself...