Word: voted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clement Attlee's cabinet had been against abolishing capital punishment, but when the subject came up in the House of Commons (TIME, April 22), the government adopted a hands-off policy and permitted Labor members to vote according to conscience, and not according to party line...
...They voted for abolition. Under British procedure the bill could not become law until approved by the House of Lords, or if they chose not to approve, Commons could, at the end of two years, reaffirm its vote and make it law anyway. But, with four murderers under death sentence, impulsive, humanitarian Home Secretary Chuter Ede did not even wait for the bill to reach debate in the House of Lords. He reprieved them...
...first gale blew up when Socialists suddenly bucked at the idea of firing 150,000 surplus government workers-though Socialists in the Schuman cabinet were committed to the economy. The Premier demanded a vote of confidence and got it, 402-183 (his ninth in nearly seven months). Only the Communists voted against him. The size of his majority seemed almost a promise of sunny weather...
...clouds closed in again. This time it was a group of the Assembly's rightists, Radicals and Gaullists, who were after the government. They criticized the way the nationalized utilities were being run. When the matter was put to a vote, the government squeaked...
...were against it. Maurice Thorez had already called it "a national disaster." And General Charles de Gaulle promised a public statement on the subject before the debate began. That De Gaulle would be critical, there was no doubt. If he were violently critical, Radical and rightist deputies would not vote the ratification...