Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their virtual prisoner in his gilt & gingerbread palace at Sinaia. Any contact between sovereign and subjects is rigorously discouraged by the Communists. His own two aunts are little better than Russian agents. His Speech from the Throne last week, at the opening of Rumania's Parliament, was plainly dictated by Communist Petru Groza, the King's first minister and Rumania's real boss. "Friendship and cooperation in all fields with the U.S.S.R.," read Michael, "remain the very basis of Rumanian foreign policy. Rumania will seek sincere cooperation with the nations respecting the independence, sovereignty and freedom...
...riding was one to watch. It would be a gauge of public feeling on such close-to-home issues as the rising cost of living. It was also an election in which the Liberal Government's newly appointed Fisheries Minister Milton Fowler Gregg was seeking his seat in Parliament. Yet York-Sunbury was no Liberal pushover: the Liberals had been able to capture it only twice (1935 and 1945) in 33 years. Furthermore, for the first time in the riding's history, the ambitious young socialist CCF Party, which polled only 1,674 votes...
...Dublin, Queen Victoria and the Irish were nearly through with their decades of trading stony stares: the statue of her, right outside Parliament, was to be removed at last, to make space for a parking...
Died. Thomas Horatio Nelson, fourth Earl Nelson, 89, great-great-nephew of the hero of Trafalgar; in Salisbury, England. In 1806 a grateful Parliament voted the Nelson family a ?5,000 annuity; in 1946 the Labor Government decided that the nation's debt had been paid: the annuity will stop with the death of Thomas' brother, Edward Agar Horatio...
...block to absolute Communist power in Czechoslovakia. But last week they came to with a jerk. Ferjencik named as the bomb plot's' ringleaders the two general secretaries of the Slovak Democratic Party. They were Jan Kempny and Milos Bugar-both Catholics, both members of the Czechoslovak Parliament. All at once it was terribly clear that, if these two were disposed of, the Slovak Democratic Party would be so demoralized that it would cease to be a force in Czechoslovakian politics...