Word: parliaments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fierce anti-Fascist and pro-Fascist epithets flew. Deputies rushed up from the provinces and buzzed feverishly in the lobbies of their Chamber, though it was not in session and Premier Pierre Laval would rather have butted his hard head into a hornet's nest than have permitted Parliament to meet. Electric in the air of Paris was a feeling that, if France is not to drift further and further to the Left, she must jog Right in the present crisis. That is, her own Fascists of the Croix de Feu, which has no connection with either Mussolini...
...Premier, who characteristically has Hungarian soldiers punished by flogging, climbed into an airplane sent by General Goring to fetch him. Soaring from Hungary to East Prussia, Premier Combos alighted to find Hunt Host Goring surrounded by German and Polish officials including the rabidly anti-Soviet chairman of the Polish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Prince Radziwill...
...Lithuania last week. This new Republic seized Memel from beaten Germany after the War. The old frontier between Tsarist Russia and Kaiserish Germany ran along the edge of Memel through what is now Lithuania. Last week the 80,000 Memelanders were to elect 29 Deputies to the pigmy Parliament of their minuscule semi-autonomous Territory. Nothing was at stake except German prestige, for Adolf Hitler had resolved that the 1932 Memel election record in which about 80% of the votes went to German candidates must be bettered. In his recent Nazi Convention speech at Nurnberg the Realmleader loudly electioneered...
...safe from assassination if he refused to contribute, grudgingly gave 60,000 yen, prepared to sell short. Meanwhile the plotters approached slackjowled Commander Saburo Yamaguchi, Inspector of Aircraft at Yokosuka Naval Base. Soon this simple officer had been pumped full of a patriotic idea: "Japan must be liberated from Parliament, Capitalism must be crushed, and pure Emperor-rule restored!" Fired with loyal zeal, Commander Yamaguchi agreed to drop bombs upon a Japanese Cabinet session, to blow up Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Station...
...daughter of the Governor of the National Bank of Egypt and a Burmese lady who told correspondents: "My name means cool, calm, pleasant mist." Between good dinners and spiritual lobbying in Geneva, Dr. Buchman took 50 members of his team on a flying trip to Berne. There in the Parliament House awaited President Rudolf Minger flanked by his cabinet...