Word: parliament
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Airplane commutation between Brussels and St. Wolfgang (Austria) has stopped. In four eventful days last week Belgium's royal D.P. (Displaced Person), King Leopold III, finally made up his mind. So did his Parliament...
...Liberation (his son Prince Moulay Hassan was also decorated-see cut) and was shown a hydroelectric dam in the Auvergne Mountains. Behind these comings & goings was potential trouble in France's North African empire and the specter of France's Syrian debacle (epitomized in the Damascus parliament building wrecked-see cut -by French mortars in an attack which Syrians refer to as "Syria's Pearl Harbor"). North Africa was restive. Like Frenchmen, Moroccans, Algerians and Tunisians were still worried about the food shortage. Last year, arid Morocco had its worst drought since 1904. This year...
There is no precedent in modern Japanese history for direct personal rule by the Emperor. Parliament empowered Hirohito to rule with dictatorial powers last month. What drove Japanese leaders to take this step is not certain. It may be that there is agitation in Japan-unrest and longing for peace. To unite the people for a resistance at home, it may have been necessary to invoke the Emperor's personal prestige...
...honor of the man who had planned its conquest. Consumptive son of an English parson, Cecil John Rhodes had come to South Africa for his health, carrying nothing but a Greek lexicon. At first, he commuted between Oxford and Cape Town; he took his seat in the Cape Parliament after he graduated from Oriel College. In Kimberley he built De Beers & Co., history's largest diamond monopoly, and made himself the richest man in the world. But he continued to live in a tin shack and to dream of the uses to which his money might...
...supported the famed "Jameson Raid," in which a band of armed adventurers invaded the South African Republic. The Raid failed miserably. But it shocked the world. For Rhodes, the failure of Jameson's Raid was a catastrophe. The British Government repudiated him; he resigned from the Cape Parliament, of which he was Prime Minister. His dream of all Africa as a British colony collapsed, and along with it his plans for a "secret society" of wealth and brains that would rule the world. When, in 1899, Anglo-Boer hatred flared up again into active warfare, Rhodes was a broken...