Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy mopping up. A fortnight ago, the leaders of the liberal National Peasant Party had been arrested (TIME, July 28). Aging (74) ex-Premier Juliu Maniu was in Malmaison Prison. Jon Mihalache had been moved to the cellar of the Ministry of Interior. Last week a rubber-stamp parliament outlawed the National Peasant Party, Rumania's majority party (70% of voters...
...Parliament's horrified Committee of Privileges promptly launched an inquiry. It was on delicate ground, for there are 46 journalists in the House. Practically all London papers employ paid M.P. contributors, some of whom sign their stuff. (Unlike the U.S. Congress, Parliament by custom permits barrister members to represent clients with political interests; every major union has M.P. officials on its payroll, and Tories and Laborites alike are on well-paying company directorates.) But Allighan's charges about bought-&-paid-for leaks were something different, and highly explosive...
Charged with "aggravated contempt and gross breach of privilege," Allighan would be lucky to get off with a reprimand from the Speaker. Parliament could, if it wished, suspend him, expel him, or even confine him in the Tower of the House. Herbert Morrison announced to the House that Allighan has gone to South Africa "on medical advice...
...still time left for the Lords to perform a fateful function. In their chamber, the Royal Assent was solemnly given to the Indian Independence Bill. In the presence of five royal commissioners (in cocked hats and scarlet robes with ermine and sable-edged capes), the clerk of the Parliament pronounced: "Le Roy Le veutl" (the king wills it). With these words, Britain had abandoned the greatest single base of her power. The subcontinent which Robert Clive's military mastery and Benjamin Disraeli's diplomatic craft had made the cornerstone of empire was cut loose, and 300 million Indians...
...health was better than last year (though his legs gave him some trouble), and his mind still seemed as cold a lancet as ever probed an infection. He wrote recently: "Parliament men . . . keep declaring that the British parliamentary system is one of the greatest blessings British political genius has given the world; and the world has taken it at its self-valuation . . . always with the same result: political students . . . exposing such frightful social evils . . . Parliament ignoring them as long as possible. . . ." Of Marx's Das Kapital: "Little Dorrit is a more seditious book . . . All over Europe men and women...