Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parliament Eden doggedly defended his policies. Before the Christmas recess, he answered a last question: "I would be compelled, if I had the same very disagreeable decisions to take again, to repeat them." Those were to be the last words he was ever to speak in his 34 years in the House of Commons. As the Speaker broke in to move adjournment, Eden fell back onto his seat, head lolling on the green cushioning as he stared vacantly upward. Only when a colleague tugged at his arm did he heave himself to his feet and walk into the lobby...
...story on Israel's "Massacre of the Innocents" [48 Arab villagers were shot by over-zealous Israeli border guards on the eve of Israel's invasion of Egypt] does credit to the fundamental ethical and moral values by which humanity professes to live. What other leader and Parliament would make public such a disgrace voluntarily and display sincere contrition so quickly and compensation so readily without U.N. meddling...
...could report on the need of economic aid, which Kadar eagerly needs, "even if it comes from capitalist countries." But by week's end the U.N. team had not seen Kadar. That privilege was reserved for the two visitors from Moscow, Khrushchev and Malenkov. In Budapest's Parliament House Khrushchev, in effect, told the Hungarians that they could not expect the same measure of independence as the Poles were now enjoying. Whereas stiff-backed Wladyslaw Gomulka had been able to stand off the bullying Russians, in Hungary the Russians were dealing, not with a man, but with...
Representatives of the Populists, Syria's largest party, were shuffled out. The leftists could now count on a majority because so many moderate members of Parliament had fled the country, and the moderates who stayed were not strong. "I'm tired of being a civilian front for an army clique," said one minister visiting in Lebanon. A nationalist moderate himself, Premier Sabri el Assali managed to keep the Interior Ministry with its police authority himself, and to keep" Serraj's closest friends out of the Cabinet...
After a successful academic career at the University of London, Gaitskell entered the civil service in 1940 as a secretary to Hugh Dalton in the Ministry of Economic Welfare. After the war, he was elected to Parliament and, as one of a group of young Socialist intellectuals, rose to the secretaryship of the Ministry of Fuel and Power. There, and as Minister for Economic Affairs and later Chancellor of the Exchequer, he held key posts in the post-war Labor government beset by economic dislocation at home and in Europe...