Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a rainbow's-end prospect was offered last week to Britons, who have long suffered from an inadequate health system. Health Minister Aneurin Bevan planked down before Parliament his long-expected National Health Service Bill, which promises care for every man, woman & child from womb to tomb-to start...
Doctors or no doctors, "Nye" Bevans' bill was almost certain to get approval from Parliament...
Members of Parliament had never known so much uncertainty among their constituents. But in Britain there was much less excitement over the Churchill-Stalin exchanges than...
...most effective technique was to reach back for the stories of the great historical precedents which determined the relations of citizens to soldiers in the English-speaking world. Was there an issue about quartering troops on the citizenry? Marshall could tell of the victory Charles I's third parliament had won over him on that point, or how a protest against quartering troops on citizens came to be in the Declaration of Independence and a guarantee against it in the U.S. Constitution. Was there an issue about the size of army units? Marshall knew that wartime efficiency called...
...Parliament Bevin had said, "When men have fought with you or stood by you it is against our religion to let them down." Now he promised Anders that those of his soldiers who did not want to return to the new Poland could find asylum in the British Empire. Argentina and Brazil were also reported ready to offer them homes. But Britain thought the best solution would be for them to return to Poland, and Britain was circulating an appeal through the Polish Army containing the Polish Government's pledge to treat the soldier exiles fairly...