Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meetings takes place each week in a neat, white stucco building on the Parochialstrasse. Here the 130 duly elected representatives of the people of Berlin-the "Stadtparlament" or City Assembly-convene in a third-floor room. Its straight rows of wooden benches suggest a classroom more than a parliament. But to the front, below grey curtains emblazoned with a huge emblem of the bear of Berlin, two large, raised benches rather suggest a courtroom...
...sseldorf, General Sir Brian Robertson, Britain's commander in Germany, addressed himself to the North Rhine-Westphalia Parliament. Cried he: "Come forward determined to make the best of the largest part of your country. . . ." For the foreseeable future, Russian obstruction had made one Germany impossible. On the far side of the Iron Curtain was "unity," Robertson said, but it was "unity with the Czechs and other people of Eastern Europe in a common bondage...
When the Italian voter goes to the polls tomorrow to choose the first Parliament under the new constitution, he will have behind him one of the most extravagant and highly publicized election campaigns in history. Its result has been called by some so important as to influence the course of Europe for the next hundred years. This awful responsibility has been placed unsought on the Italian. It has come by reason of his country's strategic position, because Italy has been made the testing ground for Communism and Western Democracy in a free election, because the Peninsula is the center...
...reminders: 1) in Parliament, right and center parties raised the same question that had precipitated the Czech Communist coup, asked the government if it was true that Finland's Communist-bossed police had recently been loaded with Communists; 2) a Communist rally was told by Hertta Kuusinen, fortyish daughter of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic's President Otto Kuusinen, that "Finland must follow the same road as Czechoslovakia...
...shek welcomed the delegates and then, in a mildly tolerant gesture, returned to his residence to have tea with the "irregulars." The day before, the Generalissimo had attended the last meeting of the People's Political Council (which for ten years had functioned as China's provisional Parliament). In his farewell address, Chiang had some significant things to say about tolerance: "I have committed many blunders during these past ten years, but the worst was my tolerance toward the Communists. I allowed them to take part in the People's Political Council and gave them other privileges...