Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fourth Republic: "France is a Republic, indivisible, secular, democratic and social." It continues with the echoing phrase, "of the people, by the people, for the people." Minister of Justice Michel Debré, who had a big hand in writing the new constitution, denies that De Gaulle opposes a democratic Parliament. Says he: "French democracy threatened to perish because Parliament was also the government, the administration, and even sought to administer justice. The role of a Parliament is not to govern. It is to vote laws and the budget and to be the final recourse of sovereignty and liberty...
...slablike, loudspeaker-shaped building in Manhattan this week the 81-nation conclave, which romantics like to call "the parliament of man," addressed itself to a historic task. The problem before the U.N. General Assembly-the persistent, nitroglycerin-like instability of the Middle East-was infinitely complex and the potential consequences of another Mideastern explosion were incalculable. Yet, for all that, the great majority of delegates went to the fifth special session in the 13-year history of the Assembly armed with nothing more than what the Japanese engagingly called "a policy of positive wait...
...Gaulle swept into the Palais Royal to defend his own proposed constitution before a special 39-man parliamentary committee set up to examine it. De Gaulle was out to solve two major problems that have at times virtually paralyzed his country-the chaos of a supreme but irresponsible Parliament, and the long struggle to find some permanent policy for France's colonies...
Died. Brendan Bracken, since 1952 Viscount Bracken, 57, British publisher and industrialist, Minister of Information during World War II, retired Member of Parliament, board chairman of the Financial Times, onetime managing director of the Economist, board chairman of Union Corporation, Ltd., giant international mining concern; of throat cancer; in London. A carrot-topped Irishman who was brought up on a remote Australian sheep station, Bracken went to England at 15, began honing his invective facility and absorbing the wide sophistication that made him famous in Whitehall, in Mayfair and the City for wit and eloquence. In the '30s Bachelor...
...least two U.S. filter brands - Kent and Hit Parade - carry less than 18 mg. of tar, while King Sano has 18.5 mg. and Parliament 19.6 mg., says Foster D. Snell, Inc., an inde pendent testing and research firm...