Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elected to Parliament in 1924 from the tough shipyard and foundry constituency of Stockton-on-Tees, Macmillan was deeply moved by the suffering that the Depression brought to his constituents, established "dole schools" which he personally financed, to teach unemployed workers useful crafts. In Parliament he acidly attacked the inaction of his own Conservative Party, called it a "party dominated by second-class brewers and company promoters." In 1936 he even crossed the aisle to vote with Labor in censuring the government's inaction in depressed areas. The task of his generation, he cried, was "to conquer poverty...
...Macmillan returned to London bedecked with honors and praise, only to see the Conservatives go down to defeat. In the debacle he lost his own Stockton seat, but soon returned to Parliament from the safe constituency of Bromley, near London. In opposition, he turned his acid tongue on the Socialists ("The brave new world has turned into nothing but fish and Cripps"), but was gratified to find himself no longer a rebel in his own party-it now agreed with him. Laborites detested his tart, hectoring manner. The Laborite Daily Herald snapped: "He merely gibes and sneers and ogles...
...Eden announced that he was also resigning his seat in Parliament. Since outright resignation is considered a show of disloyalty to the Crown, he will follow the ancient practice of disqualifying himself by applying for a job of "honor and profit" under the Crown. This post has since 1742 been "Bailiff or Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds" - a job originally established to protect the Chiltern Hills from bandits, and which once carried the nominal salary of ?i a year. The salary, like the bailiff's duties, has long since receded into traditional fiction. Eden also turned down...
...elections were rigged so that the Communists could not fail of a majority, but the danger was that the number of cryptodemocrats hiding beneath the Communist Party label threatened to produce non-Communist combinations in the new Parliament. A non-Communist Polish government now, to judge from Hungary's experience, would be an open invitation for Soviet armed intervention. To avoid this possibility, Gomulka last week ordered the electoral commission to remove from the approved list any candidates who "are weak of character and have shown lack of responsibility." He had another worry: What if thousands of voters boycotted...
...believed, American-style, in small profits and big turnovers. Said he: "I prefer to make one lira cutting costs rather than five by raising prices." But where Donegani's business acumen triumphed, his political instincts failed. A Fascist member of Parliament as early as 1921 and onetime president of the National Fascist Federation of Industries, Donegani was arrested by the Allies in 1945. He died two years later, a broken...