Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ceylon's six million-odd Eurasians, Indians, Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors and Malays, rugged, 6 ft., 63-year-old Prime Minister Don Stephen ("Jungle John") Senanayake hauled the old Lion flag to its place atop the Temple of the Tooth.* By a peaceful act of Britain's Parliament, Ceylon-like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Eire, India and Pakistan-had become a sovereign dominion of the British Commonwealth...
...semisecret wartime Hyde Park Agreement which Canada wanted continued into the years of peace (TIME, Feb. 9). On Capitol Hill, Nebraska's Senator Kenneth Wherry and his Small Business Committee had a staff of clerks digging through the files for a full-dress investigation, some time soon. On Parliament Hill, Saskatchewan's CCFer Thomas John Bentley asked that the Secretary of State for External Affairs tell the House of Commons all there was to tell about Hyde Park...
Common Defense. What Franklin Roosevelt and Mackenzie King had done at their Easter conference in 1941 was to solemnize the economic marriage of the U.S. and Canada. Mackenzie King had used martial rather than marital terms when he told Parliament that spring: "It involves nothing less than a common plan [for] the economic defense of the Western Hemisphere." But no matter how much the statesmen of each country might play it down for political expediency, the fact was inescapable: in effect, Canada had become an economic 49th state...
Pudgy, bald Mario Scelba, Christian Democrat Minister of the Interior, had already thought about it a good deal. Italians would elect a Parliament on April 18. The last thing Scelba wanted was swaggering, uniformed, intimidating bands of Communists and left-wing Socialists marching the streets of Italy. Scelba wanted a law forbidding all private armed organizations. But his cabinet colleagues needed convincing. They feared a row. With a shrewd twinkle in his black eyes, Mario Scelba let scrappy Il Tempo take up the cudgels...
...little awkwardly, the Chinese people took another step toward popular government. They elected the 768-member Legislative Yuan, which will be China's (heavily Kuomintang) Parliament. It was still a toddler's step, but somewhat more assured than last November's National Assembly* elections. For one thing, the Chinese showed a growing feeling for machine politics...