Word: parliaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan under Emperor Hirohito has much in common with England under Queen Victoria. Last week every Japanese read with pride a state-of-the-nation speech delivered to the 73rd session of the Imperial Parliament by Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. It might have been Lord Palmerston speaking, it might have been years ago, but it was actually Mr. Hirota voicing the aspirations of Japan in terms as serene as those used by Queen Victoria's ministers to express their gratification at the progress of Imperialism...
...Full text of the articles of the Constitution concerned: Article Two: "The national territory consists of the whole of Ireland, its islands and the territorial seas." Article Three: "Pending the re-integration of the national territory, and without prejudice to the right of the Parliament and Government established by this Constitution to exercise jurisdiction over the whole of that territory, the laws enacted by that Parliament shall have the like area and extent of application as the laws of the Free State and the like extraterritorial effect." Article Four: "The name of the State is Eire...
...Moscow under the Soviet regime has always been when delegates come swarming up all the railways of Russia, traveling on free passes, supplied with bounteous food & drink, and are given the best hotel rooms in the cap-ital-used by tourists in the summer-while they meet as the Parliament of Bolshevism. Last week this national picnic was extra special. The Soviet Union has a new Stalin Constitution and under it the deputies going to Moscow had been elected for the first time directly by all the voters whom they represent (TIME...
...been given them, and by Joseph Stalin. In a speech the chief parts of which did not come through the censorship but whose text was printed and reprinted in Soviet papers, the Dictator said of the men and women up for election to Russia's new Parliament: "I cannot say with assurance that their ranks are free ... of such men whom the Russian proverb describes as 'neither God's candle, nor Devil's broom.'. . . Our Constitution foresees the possibility of that situation-a deputy who has begun to kick. . . . The Government must organize new elections...
...Parliament (TIME, Nov. 8), it was startling good news to millions of Britons last week to see gouty Neville leaping gracefully over a stone wall as he enjoyed his New Year's holiday...