Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debate, Spaak went to Parliament serenely ready to counterattack. When newspapermen asked him whether he intended to resign, he grinned: "The dead man is still standing up." To the deputies he cried: "Things have changed . . . Today we can shake hands with a Catholic without assuming him to be a supporter of the Inquisition or of Saint Bartholomew's massacre...
...words of a friend, that they were born to lead Belgium. His maternal grandfather, Paul Janson, and his uncle, Paul Emile Janson, were great Liberal leaders; his father was a well-known playwright; his mother, a Socialist, was the first woman to sit in Belgium's Parliament. At 75, white-haired, good-humored Senator Spaak listens proudly to the speeches of her son, to whom she refers as "the Minister...
...Helsinki, Finland's Parliament, by a vote of 157 to 11, ratified the Soviet-Finnish mutual aid treaty (TIME, April 19) that Finns had not wanted...
...Ottawa's Parliament Building, Walpole's portrait hangs first in the gallery of 42 British Prime Ministers. Last week a waggish newsman draped the frame with black paper, and pasted on a label: "Scratched...
...boards have produced plans to beautify Ottawa, if not make it bigger. The net result: a few extra patches of public lawn, a few monuments, and Confederation Square, which has so complicated downtown traffic that Ottawans themselves call it Confusion Square. Ottawa, dominated by the anachronistic Gothic buildings of Parliament, has remained frowzy, a city where trains run through the center of town and chuff smoke into the foyer of the best hotel...