Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inflation mounting. And in their efforts to ease India's economic woes and weaknesses, the nation's planners had brought forth a second five-year plan so overambitious that it was rapidly exhausting India's sterling balance in London. Already, Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari told Parliament last week, the government has been obliged to lower the legal minimum sterling backing for India's currency from $840 million to $630 million...
...apparent that the Khrushchev party had not come to Berlin to offer any dazzling scheme for German reunification that might sway West Germany's election against Chancellor Adenauer next month. Quite the contrary. After toasting Old Stalinist Ulbricht's "correct" leadership, Khrushchev told the stooge East German Parliament: "Adenauer's policy of strength may be the path he chooses, but it is full of danger. Hitler also followed a policy of strength, and we know where he ended." Khrushchev made it plain that Russia is quite satisfied with a Germany half slave, half free...
...Love Parliament." Although Tory old pros in his party warned that such high-mindedness had no political sex appeal, Diefenbaker plunged ahead. "I love Parliament," he said, and described the occasions when the Liberal government had held it "in contempt." Quoting Howe's "Who's to stop us?" Diefenbaker thundered: "The road of the Liberal government leads to the extinction of parliamentary government in Canada...
...months. Canadians seemed increasingly pleased with the change of faces in Ottawa. Even Liberal newspapers found little to carp about, and leaders of the opposition parties promised not to "obstruct" the new government. On Oct. 14, Queen Elizabeth II will read a government policy statement to the new 23rd Parliament, and Diefenbaker will then present his legislative program to a hostile majority in the House of Commons. The opposition parties could join forces at any time to overthrow his government and force a new election. Far from holding any terrors for Diefenbaker, that is a situation he may even invite...
...this occasion there was no trace of it. When he took leave of two of his children and intimates, his courtesy won the admiration of his jailers, and when the exiled Prince of Wales (Charles II of the Restoration) sent a signed blank sheet of paper to Parliament agreeing to anything that would save his father's life, and a similar document to Charles, the King tossed it into the fire. Always a religious man, he found comfort in the thought that he would soon be with Christ, and always a meticulous one, he dressed for his execution...