Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DELHI, India, Nov. 27--Prime Minister Nehru won overwhelming approval today for his handling of the border dispute with Red China, after demanding that Parliament back him up or get a new prime minister...
...anti-Chinese demonstrations broke out outside, Nehru told Parliament he has sent other proposals to Peiping, but declined to go into detail until Chou gets the note from New Delhi...
...Brussels, Parliament was called back into special session to discuss the riots. Minister of the Congo Auguste De Schrijver announced that he would visit the Congo himself this month to confer with Congolese leaders. "I ask, nay I implore, all concerned to renew the dialogue between Belgians and Congolese," said De Schrijver plaintively. The Socialist opposition wanted De Schrijver and the government to be ready to negotiate independence now with the Africans. "Why wait for elections when you know the major parties will boycott it?" demanded Socialist Leader Léon Collard...
...these days. His bared head has been made indecently white by the birds of the Strand." Booze-hating Sir Wilfrid Lawson: "The pigeons have dealt most unkindly [with him]." Poet Robert Burns: "[His] slight defacement merely has the effect of giving him a tearful left eye." The situation in Parliament Square: "Disraeli, Peel and Derby, with the treetops above them, suffer more than Palmerston and Smuts in the open. Yet Lincoln, behind Disraeli (who is worst afflicted of all), seems avoided by the birds in spite of being near a tree...
...Award was announced by the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament...