Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn off our radios when Drearie Willie goes on the air, members of Parliament walk out on him when he gets up to speak, and our troops overseas jeered him off the platform. . . . Need more be said...
Despite Vishinsky's efforts, Bevin won and Iran remained on the Council agenda. But London thought Vishinsky might win his case indirectly. The Iranian Majlis (Parliament) had chosen a new Premier, 65-year-old Ahmed Qavam, by a vote of 52-to-51. In spite (or because) of his large holdings in Azerbaijan, Qavam is Iran's most pro-Soviet politician. At any time he might withdraw the Iranian Appeal...
...session of Parliament opened last week. The black-robed, bewigged Speaker strode up behind the gold mace and seated himself in his canopied chair. Prime Minister Clement Attlee came in early, lounged comfortably on his front bench, upped his feet on the table before him. Then Anthony Eden, Acting Deputy Leader of the Opposition, immaculate as ever but notably greyer, settled down on his own front bench, with his feet on the same table. Only six feet separated the Labor and Tory soles...
...ever, was the time for the rain makers. In the kraals the witch doctors prepared to use their muti (medicine). In Parliament Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts proclaimed a national day of prayer for rain. On the advice of their witch doctors, Basutos climbed their peaks with calabashes of Kaffir beer to propitiate their ancestors. But no rain came...
Dutch voices here in Java are quick to blame their own "woodenheaded" Parliament for its inability to roll with the punches in imperial British style. Many admit that the freedom movement had not been "made in Japan" (however much it was nurtured by Tokyo). President Soekarno had openly collaborated with the Japanese; but anti-Jap natives still rallied to his nationalist party...