Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tartness in contemporary political verse, "Sagittarius" of the London New Statesman easily tops the world. Last week she wrote carols that British Members of Parliament and American Congressmen might suitably sing to each other. After the British sang their thanks for "a gift with strings a-dangling," the Americans were to reply with "Good Lord Halifax" (to the tune of Good-King Wenceslas...
After three months of rehearsal, the U.S. loan to Britain appeared on the world stage last week. The scattering of angry critics both on Capitol Hill and in Parliament was not likely to hold up its projected run to the year 2000, for the two greatest traders in the world needed each other. The terms meant that they would work in closer economic partnership than ever before...
King in Crisis. Preoccupied by these personal problems and pleasures, the Shah, Mohamed Reza, was scarcely the man to steer his country through a crisis. His Majlis (Parliament) of feudal landlords was not much help. Many of the abler members were instruments either of Britain or Russia, both of which continued to encourage the corruption of Iranian life. Both, too, disrupted Iran's economic life throughout the war. The British (with the Americans) monopolized the country's inadequate transportation system for Lend-Lease shipments to Russia; the Russians prevented shipment of grain from food-rich Azerbaijan to Teheran...
Bevin's speech in the House of Commons showed how far Britain had moved from prewar nationalism and imperialism. Britain, said Britain's Foreign Secretary, was now ready to give up a portion of her sovereignty to such a world parliament, to merge the power of the British people and of the House of Commons "into the greater power" that could guard "the great repositories of science and destruction...
...Demobbed" from his father's old regiment, the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, and unseated from Parliament at the last election, Randolph at 34 was still regarded by his friends as "promising." His latest fling was in an old Churchillian field: journalism. United Feature Syndicate had signed him to a one-year contract, sold his column to 80 papers in the U.S. and abroad, told him Europe was his beat. His first col umns were windy pieces about Eire, and under anyone else's name would hardly have been printed. When they appeared, Randolph was in Moscow...