Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was not another sound as the judge intoned (in Czech first and then in German) the eight-minute-long verdict of the people of Czechoslovakia against Karl Hermann Frank, the Sudeten German leader in the prewar Czech Parliament and later the Nazi "protector." Silently the people listened to the charges: treason, the murder of 300,000 Czechs, propagation of Naziism, and "co-responsibility" for the destruction of Lidice...
Into the oval, colonial-style conference room in Ottawa's Parliament Building strode nine determined members of the Canadian Congress of Labor's potent Wage Committee. Before bustling, bumbling Labor Minister, Humphrey Mitchell, they laid a demand that the Government relax its vise-tight wage control. The C.C.L.'s potent argument: the wave of strikes which threatens Canada...
...delegates thought up difficulties anyway. Those from eastern Europe (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania) were against the Socialist International because they feared to break with the Communists. Their spokesman was grey-haired, bright-eyed Anna Kethly, now Deputy Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament. Said Anna Kethly: "It would be disastrous for Hungary to end the present cordial relations with Russia, owing to the geographical proximity...
...make room for the music, the Czech Parliament moved out of its marble-columned Rudolfinum building. To represent the U.S. in two programs, the Czechs invited Manhattan's brash, brilliant 27-year-old Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein. For a week Bernstein, who speaks no Czech, waved an impatient baton at musicians rehearsing unfamiliar rhythms. At week's end sold-out houses heard a reasonable facsimile of more modern music than most U.S. concertgoers hear in a season...
...going to England, but very reluctantly. "I do not see how persons holding public office in the different Dominions can be expected to be in Britain for part of the time. I think a man's first duty is to his own country and to his own Parliament." If consultation between the various Empire prime ministers was necessary, as London seemed to think, those consultations could be conducted, could they not, by cable...