Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Live Our King." Michael signed his abdication, and within two hours a special session of Parliament had been called to announce the formation of the Rumanian People's Republic under a tractable five-man "presidential council." It all went so quickly that one member of the new council was not even in town to take his oath of office. Contemporary history's prettiest paradox-a king by the grace of Communism-was ended...
Very few people in Ireland regret the election of Mr. McBride to Parliament for they recognize his personal ability, but they do fear any further successes for his party, for they consist almost entirely of discontented left-wing De Valera-ites or members of the Irish Republican Army, which openly backed Germany during...
...people," said Niall McPherson of Dumfries, "are accustomed to their oatmeal, and they must have it." But the pleas were in vain. Like a stiftnecked English nanny who knows what's best, the Parliament sustained the oatmeal ration...
...Hungarian government of Premier Lajos Dinnyes was taking no chances with the untoward. Neither were Tito's security boys. Hungary's friend made a formal entry by private train-but not until another train, crowded with soldiers, had tested the track. Resplendently panoplied, Tito strode into the Parliament building and marched to the elevator. Then he stopped short, shook his head and gestured with one hand. Obediently, a functionary rode the elevator to the top, descended again in a trial run. (The elevator worked for Tito, too, but stalled on the next trip, trapping President of the Republic...
Until the U.S. began to spend, Canada must struggle along with makeshift measures, notably import and foreign exchange restrictions. Last week, another makeshift was adopted. Prime Minister Mackenzie King told Parliament that a 91-day agreement had been reached with Britain on food contracts (TIME, Dec. 15). The stopgap deal wall expire on March 31-the day before ERP is expected to go into effect...