Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the ministerial list (senior and junior) numbered 68. At least 23 of 30 senior appointees had held public office before, most of them in Parliament. Nine of them are ex-miners. Only two attended Eton, only 13 went to college. Their average age was 60-three years older than the Churchill Cabinet average and 20 years older than the new Labor M.P. average. Outstanding among the new appointments...
...Japan turning all its facilities, including its oil wells, over to the Allies. Regarding the American British and Russian troops now stationed in Iran. Professor Mesbahzadeh voiced the hope that these soldiers would be removed in the near future. He further stressed that the recent action of the Iranian Parliament prohibiting foreign oil concessions was not directed against any one nation...
...King was going to meet opposition after all. Dr. Richard Monahan, 64, a lean, red-haired man with an un-Canadian impulse to throw away $1,000, announced that he would run in the Glengarry, Ont. by-election called for Aug. 6 to give Mr. King a seat in Parliament...
Faced with a general strike if he returned to Belgium, Leopold finally announced that he would not go back to Belgium. He would not abdicate, either. But he would abide by the people's will in a "free and honest election." Promptly Parliament slapped him down. A bill barring Leopold's return without Parliament's consent was carried in the Chamber of Representatives by 98 votes to six, in the Senate by 77 votes to 58. Leopold's only supporters were the Catholic party, whose six Cabinet ministers resigned...
...Belgians to uphold Parliament's decree of banishment in a national referendum. The issue would not be the monarchy, but Leopold. Three years hence, Leopold's son Prince Baudouin, 15, if he grew up of a sufficiently royal figure to fit the battered royal throne, would presumably become King of the Belgians...