Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gusty Dominion daughters gave Mother Britain a wonderful surprise last week. Australia's Labor Parliament approved an outright gift of 25,000,000 Australian pounds ($80,250,000) to the United Kingdom. Next day small sister New Zealand announced a gift of 12,500,000 New Zealand pounds.* Both girls felt they ought to help Mother in her financial pinch; and besides, they owed a lot to her for help...
...write "Good Morning!" which has lately gone off on a "Had enough?" crusade against the Labor Government's actions. One contemporary has had enough of Frank Owen. Last week testy, liberal A. J. Cummings wrote in the News Chronicle: "In 1929 Mr. Frank Owen was elected to Parliament as a liberal. ... In 1938 he was made editor of the Evening Standard. It was announced yesterday that he had been appointed editor of the Daily Mail. Good Morning...
Shocking Pink. The aging Welsh wonder-boy of British journalism was as giftedly gabby as ever but no longer so leftish. At 23, as political mascot to Old Liberal Lloyd George, Owen had been Parliament's youngest member. At 32, he had left the Express to become the Socialist editor of Imperialist Beaverbrook's Evening Standard (the Beaver did not forbid dissenting opinions, but only dull ones, from such bright-pink young men as Owen and his successor Michael Foot). On the Standard, Owen had tramped hard on Tory toes, squawked against Chamberlain's appeasers...
Died. Dr. Auguste Champetier de Ribes, 64, veteran French politician, president of the Council of the Republic (upper house of parliament in the Fourth Republic), head of France's prosecuting staff at the Nürnberg trials; of cancer; in Paris...
...members of the anti-Communist Bloc Populaire last week asked the Dominion Parliament to outlaw the Labor Progressive Party "because it is in fact a Communist Party under another name." The motion probably will not get far. The Government knew that banning the Labor Progressive Party would not stop the Communists. The Communists are always a name ahead of the Government...