Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parliament gave little indication of going all the way with M.P. Lindsay, but Britain last week seemed as anxious as most of the other victorious nations to hang on to its war prisoners. More than 14 months after the war's end, some seven million Germans and Japs were still held prisoner in Allied countries. From Germany and her satellites Soviet Russia alone still retained an estimated four million. From Japan she held a million-odd more. Throughout the U.S.S.R., in coal mines, lumber camps, vineyards, construction camps and factories, from Manchuria to the Urals, they labored...
...week's end, Parliament was hip-deep in a session in which Prime Minister Clement Attlee's Labor Government would try to complete nationalization already started (steel, civil aviation, health, etc.), reveal its long-term measures for permanent socialization...
...only the first of several. Gruber's own party colleagues were annoyed with him for taking too much of the limelight in Paris. Parliamentary committees were mad at him for failure to report home before taking .Austria's first major foreign policy decision. When he faced Parliament last week, the delegates did not exactly spit on him, but it was a close-thing. Gruber managed to keep his job by the skin of his teeth...
...lighten the burden of such Empire-building philoprogenitiveness as the Naylors', William Pitt 150 years ago suggested that Parliament contribute to the support of large poor families. Nothing was done about it until 1942, when Sir William Beveridge's "Womb to Tomb" plan prodded a census-minded government to action. In 1945, a month before the Labor Party came to power, the family allowance plan became...
...that will embody enough popular control to bring the Student Council out of the 19th century. And the first essential of this control lies in ratification of the constitution by the entire student body, lest future Student Councils find themselves in the unenviable position of Harvard's 1946 rump parliament...