Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Right from the start, they ran into difficulties. The Council of Europe, hailed at its founding in 1949 as "the first Parliament of Europe," echoed with platitudes but never with the thrust of debates that got anywhere. The notion of a "European army," with everyone in the same uniform, collapsed in mutual recriminations...
...been "a master of the art" of Tunisification, he added: "Yet I was wrong." He boldly pitched his argument to the widespread French anxiety, rarely expressed publicly, about what happens after President de Gaulle leaves the scene. "To guarantee the future of democracy in France," at a time when Parliament itself is discredited in the public mind, Parliament must not assert its "harassing" power against the government. Added Debre: "My words are not dictated by a taste for theory but by the memory of the distortion of parliamentary methods that since 1872 has made the state its first victim. Democracy...
...indication of Arab-Israeli feelings, Lebanon's Parliament exploded in rage for 3½ hours last week at the conduct of Lebanon's foremost international statesman, U.N. General Assembly President Charles Malik. Malik's crime: he had stepped into the Israeli pavilion while touring an international trade fair at Manhattan's Coliseum, and actually sipped champagne with Israeli officials. "Shameful and treacherous," said Foreign Minister Hussein Oweini. "He should have died of thirst rather than drink Israeli champagne," cried Deputy Jean Aziz...
Never before had the assembly chamber of the Union of South Africa's Parliament echoed with more noble sentiments, nor had Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd and his Nationalists sounded more concerned with the welfare of the country's Bantus (blacks...
...things do not happen that way in Ceylon. Constitutionally, the government need not resign unless it loses a vote on the budget-which does not come up until August. Besides, Bandaranaike quickly patched up a new alliance with Parliament's three Communists and 14 Trotskyites, who resent Gunawardena's energetic bid for personal publicity and power. Trading on the jealousies that divide Ceylon's varied Marxists, Bandaranaike hopes to serve out his term till 1961, and seems secure for perhaps six months...