Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saucy little book called The Point of Parliament, a collection of Punch articles, last week was selling like nylons on London bookstalls. The author was Sir Alan (A.P.) Herbert, M.P., professional humorist, amateur pedant and enthusiastic beller of stray cats...
...image of the then powerful British monarchy was vivid in the minds of the Founding Fathers; they were determined not to let the presidency become any such tyranny. The process by which the British Prime Minister and his Cabinet share responsibility with Parliament, and keep their jobs only by controlling a parliamentary majority, did not evolve until after the U.S. Constitution was written. In 1940, under this system, discredited Neville Chamberlain gave way to Winston Churchill without the necessity of an election. In the midst of the delicate Potsdam Conference last year, Labor Party leaders translated a victory...
...Danish protection on the other. Some have even suggested alliance with the U.S. or Britain. But last September, when the Danes offered them a flat choice between full freedom or continued rule, the Faroese, unable to decide, turned down both alternatives. Last week they elected a new Lagting (local parliament) with instructions to work out some compromise which would adapt Danish rule to local conditions in the Faroes...
...bedecked Bolshoi Theater the keynote address of the anniversary was delivered by the man whom many think Stalin has picked as his successor: swart, stocky Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, 50. He is secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and is also chairman of the Supreme Soviet (Russian parliament), boss of Leningrad, colonel-general in the Russian Army and member of the potent, 14-man Politburo...
...Allies are more willing to get out than the Russians are. The Russians are finding all occupations uncomfortable, but they want to stay in Austria to squeeze what they can out of the remains of the Austrian economy. Yet no Soviet voice was raised against last week's Parliament action, in which the Communist deputies concurred. Asked about this, a Viennese wiseacre snapped: "The Russians don't give a damn what the Austrian Parliament does-and still less what the Austrian Communists...