Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winston Churchill came back to a whirling storm of young Tory complaints. At a meeting of the backbenchers, Churchill slumped in a red leather armchair, listened sourly for 90 minutes to their pent-up criticisms. In schoolmasterly fashion Churchill reminded the younger men that they would better appreciate Parliament tactics when they had a few more years behind them...
...background of this explosion were 1) Moscow, 2) oil. Ever since the Iranian Majlis (Parliament) curtly rejected Russia's claim for oil rights in northern Iran and forbade any Government to negotiate such rights till after the war (TIME, Dec. 18, 1944), Russia had been needling the Iranian Government. The Azerbaijan revolt looked like the substitution of action for frustrated diplomacy...
...next move: Parliament...
Many Canadians doubted that the committee could sift the mass of suggestions, agree on one and get it through the House of Commons. History backed them up: Parliament has debated a national flag off & on for 20 years...
Canada's Government retrieved a blunder. It had ineptly imposed drastic new tariff increases on such things as steel tubing (TIME, Nov. 5), contrary to long-proclaimed policy. In Parliament this week, the new tariffs got the heave. One reason: public pressure. Another, said Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley: the chances of "early international action" to lower tariff barriers "are considerably improved...