Word: parliaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unpopularity in Poland of the pro-German policy of Foreign Minister Josef Beck. It was Beck who sold to Dictator Pilsudski the ten-year Polish-German non-aggression pact of Dictator Hitler (TIME, Feb. 3, 1934). Last week Pilsudski was busy jamming through Poland's long-impotent Parliament constitutional changes making the dictatorship still more absolute. "One thing at a time!" is the crusty old Marshal's motto. For Poles the choice of the future lies between reverting to their old-time French alliance or sticking with Germany. "Our crushing dilemma," said a highly placed Pole last week...
...middle-class preacher, he has many potent friends, few enemies; many abilities, no vices. He has been a lawyer, private secretary to the High Commissioner for South-Africa, justice of the peace, soldier, Wartime director of Information (propaganda), book publisher, director of Reuter's news agency, member of Parliament from the Scottish Universities. He has written a score of excellent adventure stories, such as The Dancing Floor, Greenmantle, The Path of the King, and has shown a brilliant flair for dishing up heroes in immensely scholarly, reasonable and sound biographies: Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter...
...Russian, a German or an Italian the Premier's moving appeal to Parliament sounded like a swan song of democracy, an indirect confession that Liberty, Equality and Fraternity can no longer stand up and take it. Paris last week was .repeating the bitter jibe "It seems that Briand was a poet and Poincare was right." Senator Henry de Jouvenel, onetime French Ambassador to Rome and a close student of II Duce, told his august colleagues amid a storm of applause: "I don't know where we stand with Great Britain, but I have confidence in Premier Mussolini...
...Hitherto historians have tried to deal with Parliament solely from the institutional side," said Col. Wedgwood. "We have known nothing of the composition of Parliament. We are now agreed that the only way of throwing new light on the history of England and of Democracy is by determining who were the people who represented their country in Parliament...
...compilation of the first volume has been extremely difficult. No printed works of reference dating from the period exist and the manuscript records in many cases are incomplete or missing. It is impossible, for example, to say with certainty who among the Bishops sat in Parliament, and it is known that many of the Peers were not summoned to sit when they belonged to the 'wrong party...