Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mere Talking Shop." Britons who prize the dignity of Parliament were far from amused by the guillotining and the cavorting. The London News Chronicle's James Cummings, usually sympathetic to Labor, dourly commented: "It was of the utmost importance that such a measure should be thoroughly debated, clause by clause, and that it should be made to stand the test of every sort of criticism. . . . Instead of that, the Government, by the wholesale use of the guillotine apparatus, turned Parliament into a gigantic sausage machine. ... It made nonsense of the vital and historic functions of the House of Commons...
...first time in four full weeks, William Lyon Mackenzie King stepped out of his office in Ottawa's Parliament Building, padded across the corridor with a portfolio under his arm, pushed aside the green. curtains and stepped into the House of Commons. There was a pattering of applause and some members walked to his desk to shake his hand. The 72-year-old Prime Minister had looked wan and tired when he went away. Now he was ruddy, rested and in high spirits. A month of soaking up southern sunshine had done him good...
...Write-in Vote. A better test of Japanese democracy will come later this month, in national elections for the two houses of parliament. On the broader national scene, Prime Minister Yoshida's Liberal incumbents had used the purge powers given them by General MacArthur to get rid of the leaders of the Democratic Party, their principal opposition...
Chief leader of pro-Pakistan, anti-Congress princes was the handsome, polo-playing Nawab of Bhopal, who figures that if both the Moslem League and the ruling princes boycott the Constituent Assembly, it can be branded as a rump parliament of Congressites...
...standbys of conservative Punch, English crypto-humorous weekly, is A. P. Herbert, author and Independent M.P. who usually votes Conservative. In Parliament and Punch he has good-humoredly scolded his countrymen for bureaucratic gobbledygook, antiquated divorce and drinking laws. A fortnight ago, in Punch, Herbert broke some sharp pentameters against the windmills of Government planning. Excerpts...