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...Western Allied High Commissioners initialed the "protocol of agreements" which put into force the decisions of the Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference (TIME, Nov. 28). Next day, Adenauer submitted the protocol to the Bundestag (Lower House). The new German Parliament forthwith proved one thing: it was no rubberstamp Reichstag...
Like any smart dictator, Spain's Francisco Franco keeps a parliament on hand to rubberstamp his acts and to acclaim his glory. The opening of his well-trained Cortes is one of Spain's gaudiest state affairs; for schoolchildren and factory workers, it is a holiday. Obligingly, Franco likes to spice the annual occasion with holiday cheer, in the form of some piece of good news...
...Soviet Union's best display of what it calls a "people's democracy" is the annual budget session of the Supreme Soviet. Deputies, elected on a one-party, one-candidate ballot, assemble to rubberstamp a budget. Last week in Moscow, the show was put on again...
...pointing at tomorrow, usually by prodding at today, for more years than many U.S. radicals could remember. He had done three books with drawings about Hell; in the last volume, Hell was equipped with all modern inconveniences, and the new rulers (Capitalists) referred to Satan as "the bellhop," "the rubberstamp." He had drawn, for the old Life and many other magazines. He had done simple, sad, angry drawings like the one in which the little boy and girl of the slums find their own words for a beautiful night: "Chee Annie, look at the stars, thick as bedbugs...
...Observed with admiration a rubberstamp spelling out the forceful legend: "Hell No!" as designed and used by Ohio's Representative James Seccombe in giving some of his correspondents short answers...