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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That is true," admitted Lord Dufferin & Ava, then continued his ringing address as a budding statesman by keynoting: "His Majesty's Government are determined not to allow calm proposals to be blocked by threats!" Without a vote in the Lords the bill then went to the Commons...
Obviously this Churchill amendment slewed the Government bill so far around as almost to reverse the Prime Minister's intentions and all his Palestine strategy. So many M. P.s leaped from their seats to vote Churchillwise that an official count would have gravely embarrassed Chamberlainians, and the Speaker hastily declared the amendment adopted without a vote. Generally in Jewish and Arab circles this putting of Palestine partition on ice until the League of Nations Council can get around to it next autumn was greeted "with relief...
...poll which failed to give de Valera's Fianna Fail Party the absolute majority for which the President had hoped (TIME, July 12). Fianna Fail won 69 seats, exactly the same number as the total held by all other parties combined. Free State Laborites continued last week to vote in loose coalition with Fianna Fail, and Eamon de Valera was elected President for the third time by a smashing Dail vote of 82-to-52. Next the Dail obediently adjourned until Oct. 6, left the President free to go forward with his arrangements to fit the Free State with...
...Yugoslavia, virtually hid himself in Slovenia last week until Premier Milan Stoyadinovich, an Orthodox, and Minister of Interior Father Anton Koroshetz, a Roman Catholic priest, should have succeeded or failed to jam the Concordat through the Skupshtina (Lower House). Sick deputies were brought in-even on stretchers-to vote and the Cabinet finally...
When seconded by 16 units, the referendum demand went before President Broun and the International Executive Board, who will schedule a national vote of 11,000 Guildsmen as soon as the motions are found in proper order. Thus, after a week of squawks and counter-squawks, the four-year-old Guild found itself ready to take inventory of what it has done so far, what its future course will...