Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LONDON, Nov. 5--A British Laborite member of Parliament, Philip Noel-Baker, was named winner of the 1959 Nobel Peace Prize today. Mr. Noel-Baker, former Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, is one of his party's chief speakers on disarmament...
...first time, Schrijver openly offered the vast (900,000 sq. mi.) colony a definite timetable for achieving its freedom. By next fall, he said, the Congo will have its own Parliament. Within four years after that, it can decide whether to break with Belgium entirely or adopt a modified independence that would leave control of currency, defense and foreign policy to Brussels. Whatever the ultimate decision, added Schrijver sternly, "I wish to stress that responsibility for democratic government will really be in the hands of the Congolese people...
...Conservative victory, although it represents a popular vote majority of less than 6 per cent over the Opposition, is decisive in Parliament. With 28,000,000 British voters giving 365 seats to the Conservatives, 258 to Labor and six to the Liberals, the Tory majority was nearly doubled to a surprising 101 seat advantage...
...Congo, exploded in the bloodiest race riots the colony had known in a decade (TIME, Jan. 19), Belgium hastily promised gradual independence "without fatal delays and without rash haste." Last week, despite all of Belgium's careful timetables (local council elections next December, establishment of the first parliament next year), the freedom-hungry Congo appeared to be hurtling headlong toward chaos...
...Laborites made some election propaganda out of the scandal, but much more than politics was involved. Whichever party wins, the case has made it virtually certain that the next Parliament will enact legislation, similar to that in the U.S., to protect Britain's small investors...