Word: parliaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking like a parliament of soldiers, the uniformed Reichstag waited 30 minutes for its Messiah to arrive in flaring black military breeches, well-shined boots and unadorned brown shirt. Up jumped the Reichstag to salute and "HEIL HITLER!" Down sat the Reichstag. Minister of the Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick nominated Minister-Prasident-Generaloberst Hermann Wilhelm Goring, fresh from his parleys in Rome with II Duce, to be Speaker again. Up jumped the Reichstag, thus electing him unanimously...
...House and hands it up to be read. This the Rt. Hon. Stanley Bald win did last week when he handed up to Speaker the Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy the abdication message of Edward VIII (TIME, Dec. 21). The first message from new King George VI asked Parliament to make "permanent provision for the purpose of facilitating the uninter rupted exercise of the royal authority" in case of "any incapacity which might over take the Sovereign...
Resumption of business by the Lords and Commons last week, after the long British Christmas-New Year recess, opened politically the new Georgian era of George VI. It was not an occasion which required His Majesty to open Parliament in state with a Speech from the Throne, the last such required speech having been read loud and clear by Edward VIII (TIME, Nov. 9). Today George VI is making rapid further progress with doctors and vocalists to overcome his defective speech (TIME, Dec. 21), and the Duke of Kent was recently pressed into service to read an overseas royal radio...
...typical Japanese nervous frenzy, screamed, "I will kill myself by hara-kiri if it can be proved that the Army and the Cabinet are not hand-in-glove!" Riotously the session adjourned. To the Imperial Palace rushed Premier Koki Hirota, advised bespectacled Emperor Hirohito to suspend Parliament for two days. But War Minister Terauchi's blood was at boiling point. He demanded that the Cabinet advise the Emperor to dissolve the Diet and order fresh elections. He relied on the fact that he and Navy Minister Admiral Osami Nagano are answerable ultimately only to the Emperor. He felt confident...
...With Parliament about to reconvene, a major national issue thus faced the Prime Minister and Sir Thomas Inskip. Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Coordination of Defense, a committee of which the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin is chairman. Sir Thomas is an extremely churchy, well-meaning British statesman who has the misfortune to know almost nothing about modern mechanized warfare. He is an expert on the Prayer Book and successfully led a great House of Commons battle against bishops of the Church of England when they wished to "reform" it (TIME, Dec. 26. 1927). In 1936 the two most fateful...