Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Correspondent Shepherd, the scene in Parliament as Nehru spoke on the war crisis recalled the night in August 1947 when he sat in the press gallery as India's independence was declared: "If history was made in Parliament House that night," he wrote, "it is now again being made. Parliament's mood has never so faithfully reflected the mood of the Indian people. India at war for the first time as an independent country is a country come to maturity. The mood is one of quiet determination...
...days. When it became clear that the voting for a new National Assembly had turned into a landslide for Gaullist candidates, France's President could not resist making a jubilant telephone call to Georges Pompidou, the interim Premier whose government was toppled only last month by a rebellious Parliament...
...year-old Nehru gave the impression of being swept along by this tumult, not of leading it. His agony was apparent as he rose in Parliament, three days before the Chinese cease-fire announcement, to report that the Indian army had been decisively defeated at Se Pass and Walong. The news raised a storm among the M.P.s. A Deputy from the threatened Assam state was on his feet, shaking with indignation and demanding, "What is the government going to do? Why can't you tell us? Are we going to get both men and materials from friendly countries...
...victors were ministers in Pompidou's government. In runoffs to fill the other 386 seats at week's end, Gaullists gleefully predicted that they would win a majority in the Assembly. In any case, they would attract enough strength from the other parties to ensure a Parliament firmly united behind the policies of Charles de Gaulle...
...arrests were made under a sweeping Sabotage Act steamrollered through a pliant Parliament last spring. Vowing to "tear out Communism here root and branch," Vorster, a wartime Nazi sympathizer, moved against a variety of the government's most outspoken critics. Some were ranking Reds before South Africa banned the Communist Party in 1950; some were vociferous left-wingers. Others were simply liberals, but that makes little difference to Vorster, who considers liberalism "the forerunner of Communism...