Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allied traffic to West Berlin to its puppet government. A six-man Soviet-East German commission met in East Berlin to arrange take-over details. "Once again the eyes of the world are upon us," tough Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt (see box) told West Berlin's Parliament. "We have no weapons, but we have a right to live, and we have strong nerves...
...unknown, than one of many in Norway, where everybody understands it." The late Socialist Mayor Ernst Reuter took Brandt under his wing. Soon Brandt, regaining his German citizenship, became a member of the West German Bundestag (Lower House) in Bonn, president of the West Berlin house of representatives (city parliament), and last year West Berlin's mayor. In 1956, after other leaders had failed, Brandt dissuaded an angry mob of 75,000 from marching into the Soviet sector to protest the Russian intervention in Hungary...
...successive Sundays, the voters of France were to elect the first Parliament of the new Fifth Republic. They went about it with an apathy that disturbed the politicians. Some voters seemed to feel that in voting for De Gaulle they had freed themselves of all that parliamentary nonsense. Except for the Communists and a few independents such as Pierre Mendès-France (who is being attacked as having "sold out to Anglo-American Jewocracy"), virtually every candidate was clinging like death to Charles de Gaulle's coattails. Forbidden to use his name, at least four parties...
Gaullist party defeated two ex-Premiers, Joseph Laniel and, most surprising of all, Pierre Mendès-France (after 26 years in Parliament...
...London magistrate called up two defendants in Bow Street police court one day last week. The first was Private Anthony Walter Plant, 19, of the 2nd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards. The second was Ian Douglas Harvey. Conservative Member of Parliament for Harrow East and Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, the third top Foreign Office post. Both were charged with "committing an act of gross indecency with another male person" in St. James Park, next to the government offices in Whitehall. Additionally, they were accused of "behaving in a manner reasonably likely to offend against...