Word: parliament
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...Opening Parliament last week, Sweden's King Gustav, 88, was guilty of a slip of the tongue which caused the Soviet Minister's heart to miss a beat. Said the King (of Sweden's membership in the United Nations): "We have recently joined the United States. It is the fervent wish of our entire people that this new union will successfully complete its mission to affirm international collaboration and to assure peace...
Moreover, the Liberal Government, which has only a slim majority in Parliament, has been forced to move steadily to the left to get the support of the CCF bloc (29 seats) in Parliament. Thus, many Canadians foresee an eventual return to the two-party system, with the radical Liberals joining the socialists, the conservative Liberals the Tories...
British law, in its impartial majesty, forbids members of Parliament to include their franked mail indecent slogans as well as those exciting sumptuary or religious passions. Therefore, Labor members were indignant last week when they discovered that Conservative members were franking a slogan not clearly covered by law but clearly not cricket: "Happy New Year and a new government soon." The Laborites protested. The Tories promised to desist...
Nominally the secret police are responsible to the Polish Parliament and Cabinet. Since the Parliament has proved a willing tool of the Communist ruling group, the UB is responsible to three Russian-trained Communist Cabinet members and Poland's No. I Communist: Jakub Berman, Under Secretary of State Without Portfolio and Secretary of the Cabinet, who has the last word on foreign affairs; Hilary Minc, Minister of Industry; Colonel Roman Zambrowski, vice director of the political department of the Foreign Ministry and a member of the six-man Presidium of the National Council; and Wladislaw Gomulka, Secretary General...
Child of Liberty. Sir Timothy Shelley, Bart., had hoped that his son would get comfortably to Parliament and stand for Reform. Instead, Percy took direct action against what he conceived as oppression, social and personal, by marrying a pretty schoolgirl who didn't want to go back to school. Blunden supplies attractive pictures of this adventure-of Harriet "ready to die of laughter" as the 20-year-old Percy, slim and shrill-voiced, stood on a Dublin balcony hurling moral tracts at selected passersby. A combatant for liberty, Shelley poetized in Queen Mob against kings, priests, commerce, wealth...