Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parliament, Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni, who often acts as a Communist cat's-paw, called for a vote of no-confidence in the Government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Communists were preparing to re-enter the Government, where their disruptive power at this critical time would be greatly increased. The vote was postponed, but for Premier de Gasperi it was a close shave...
...Azerbaijan without interference from Russia (TIME, Dec. 23), Gavam was able to smash the Azerbaijan "Democrats" (Red sympathizers) and also to reduce the Communist-tutored Tudeh party to insignificance. That left the Soviet-Persian oil agreement, signed in April 1946, which could not take effect until the Persian Majlis (parliament) ratified...
...asked the correspondents, had Pfeiffer's party not been allowed to hold a scheduled rally in front of the Parliament building? Boldizar explained that another party had somehow obtained a priority permit for the same place at the same time. What he referred to was an outfit called the Independent Hungarian Democrats, led by one Rev. Istvan Balogh-a tame "opposition" party which the Government had kept around for show-window purposes...
...them and their experts the world did not hear. But it heard much of the $3,75° million loan to Britain, and of "discrimination" and of "convertibility" (see INTERNATIONAL) . The conferees could bring about no full solution of the crisis; that was for the U.S. Congress and for Parliament, if a solution could be found. What the conferees could do they did. They suspended convertibility, froze what was left of Britain's loan, and in effect closed the bank, as Franklin D. Roosevelt did on the first day of the New Deal...
...Finnish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee wanted to join the "Marshall approach" discussions in Paris, but President Paasikivi knew the Kremlin would not stand for it, and the Finnish delegation stayed home. Despite this, U.S.-Finnish trade has continued to thrive. The Finns hoped that Russia was not preparing to demand heavy imports on top of reparations-a move which would surely diminish (or even abolish) their trade with...