Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousands of Germans last week remembered the tricolors as the flag of Germany's first parliament, which had met in the Pauls-Kirche just 100 years ago. The Frankfurt Assembly had died young, succumbing to the "unity" of Berlin and Bismarck. Last week those who remembered those lost beginnings gathered at battered old St. Paul...
...also learned that he could charm people. He used his charm on all who could help his ambitions (which were great even then) in the declining days of the Ottoman Empire. While he charmed the Turks, who considered him an outstanding member of Parliament, he was also active in the secret anti-Turkish societies which fostered Arab nationalism. His chief aim: to increase the power and domain of the Hashimites...
...total victory for Premier Paul-Henri Spaak. When a faction of his own Socialist Party had refused to go along with his handling of the Socialist-Catholic dispute over school subsidies, he had resigned (TIME, May 17). Last week, at the "earnest request" of Regent Charles and of Parliament, he withdrew his resignation. Spaak was back on his own terms-the compromise finally adopted in the school dispute was (except for minor details) the one on which he had insisted all along. "He is really strong -too strong for the others," said a Brussels delicatessen storekeeper as he closed down...
Before planning for the future, the new group is waiting to see how much interest this first tract stirs up. If last week's spate of newspaper comment and requests for copies was any indication, Parliament's 77 Socialist Christians would have plenty...
...that puzzles or annoys many a Marxist: that British Socialists seem to get more inspiration from the New Testament than from Das Kapital. The founder of Britain's Labor Party, the late Keir Hardie, was a serious Christian who denounced class warfare. Last week, 77 Labor members of Parliament proved that Hardie's tradition is still very much alive. Calling themselves the "Parliamentary Socialist Christian Group," the 77 published a plain-speaking pamphlet. Its theme: Christians should be in politics, and Labor should be their party...