Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Iraq Parliament last week received an ironic motion for the establishment of an Arab national home-in California...
...winter Winston Churchill had been troubled by coughs and colds; he badly needed the month or more of sunshine and warmth he would find in Florida. But his absence from Britain-and from the new session of Parliament-had started a rash of newspaper rumors that he was stepping down from the Tory leadership. Already Party quidnuncs were speculating about his heirs. His great & good friend Anthony Eden would deputise for him-with his ex-friend Lord Beaverbrook's open disapproval. And there were others in the field to inherit the Churchill political estate, if it should be probated...
Forthright, 49-year-old Ellis Smith is a deep-dyed socialist. He is also a firm friend of the potters who sent him to Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent (he once publicly protested to the War Office because his plate at an Army dinner was marked "foreign manufacture"). Last week crockery and conviction caused Socialist Smith to quit his job as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade-in protest against his fellow-socialist, Board of Trade President Sir Stafford Cripps...
None Better. At a press conference in the Parliament Building he stood, arms akimbo, as he gave straightforward answers to newsmen: "I have never compared Allied soldiers with each other. But there were none better than the Canadians." He shied from direct comment on joint U.S.-Canadian defense planning: "You as well as ourselves have a lively concern for the territorial integrity of North America. You wouldn't sit back and see Florida taken any more than we would see one of your provinces taken...
...Ottawa, the broad lawn on Parliament Hill shook off its mantle of snow. All across the province deep drifts fell away to little dirty mounds; streets were choked with slush. The Sauble River, the Etobicoke, the Humber, the Sydenham and the Big Head boiled over their banks. As the bottom went out of roads in the Maritimes. logging virtually stopped...