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Agriculture Organization and a life-long crusader to bring more and better food to more people. Last week in Oslo the Norwegian Parliament's Nobel Prize committee announced the winner: Crusader...
Humphed Alderman S. F. Johnson of Southend-on-Sea, determined to carry the campaign to Parliament: "We are not satisfied to pervert the morals of our own children. We want to pervert the minds and morals of all the nations of the world...
...Last week they got to an answer. As some observers had predicted (TIME, Oct. 10), the decision was to let things ride until spring. By that time, Labor hopes to repair some of the political damage which it suffered in the devaluation crisis. This week Attlee will put before Parliament a new economic program including reduction in government expenditures and other measures which, as Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison put it, "are bound to be unpleasant...
There is no truth to the rumor, circulated by the Conservatives, that Norway is getting tired of Socialism; there is plenty of proof that she is thoroughly tired of Communists. Norwegians went to the polls last week to elect a new Parliament, and decisively gave both proofs...
When the ballots were counted, the Socialists had 46% of the votes (up 5% from 1945) and 84 seats in the 150-member Parliament. The Communists, although they managed to catch almost 6% of the popular vote, were soundly shellacked, lost ten of their eleven parliamentary seats. The Conservatives, Liberals and Christian People's Party (whose campaign strategy had been badly coordinated...