Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only country in the hemisphere without at least a shadow parliament learned last week that it was going to get one-or the shadow of one. President Higinio Morinigo, Paraguay's dictator since 1940, announced that a Constituent Assembly would be elected by year's end. There might even be an opposition. Already the buff and pink mud walls of Asuncion were frescoed with the name of Colonel Rafael Franco (an ex-President who returned to Paraguay last month after the President opened concentration camp gates). Hammer-&-sickle were everywhere, for the Commies-all 300 of them...
Another braintruster is Mosha Pijade, 55, Jewish Vice President of Yugoslavia's powerless Parliament. He is a greying, walrus-mustached, hunchbacked little man (when he sits at his desk, his legs do not reach the floor), who used to be a journalist, modernist painter and a Belgrade drawing-room lion until Communists were taken seriously. Then he was jailed, spent years studying Chinese, lecturing his jailmates, and translating Das Kapital into Serbo-Croatian...
...indeed high time that Mr. King came home. The steel strike, which he had hopefully handed over to Parliament to settle just before he left, had become a national disaster. Last week Mr. King sailed from Southampton...
Married. Group Captain the Hon. John William Maxwell ("Max") Aitken, D.S.O., D.F.C., 36, Member of Parliament, elder son of newspaper publisher Lord Beaverbrook; and Mrs. Jane Lindsay, 26, granddaughter of the Duke of Abercorn, onetime Governor of Northern Ireland; both for the second time; in London...
...McNeil won a seat in Parliament after two unsuccessful tries. Ernie Bevin, an authority in plain speaking, recognized McNeil's quality, appointed him Under Secretary. At Paris as stand-in for the ailing Bevin, McNeil may have somewhat overplayed his act as a simple country boy among the slick diplomatic professionals. He professed ignorance so often that Russia's Vishinsky last week cracked: "Perhaps Mr. McNeil is right about himself...