Word: parliament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hague, which set up the U.S.I, and assigned it a place as equal partner with the former mother country in the new Netherlands-Indonesian Union (TIME, Nov. 14). After a lot of fiery oratory which denounced The Hague deal for making too many concessions to the Dutch, the Republican Parliament duly ratified...
Edmund Davie Fulton, Tory member of Canada's Parliament from Kamloops, B.C., had never read a crime comic until some of his worried constituents sent him a batch two years ago. Shocked by the gory yarns, 33-year-old Tory Fulton, onetime Rhodes scholar and wartime infantry officer in Italy, began a crusade. He thundered for Parliament to outlaw such comics, most of which are published in Toronto from mats shipped in by U.S. publishers...
...juvenile judges and educators that the gory comics (Canadian circulation 5,000,000 a year v. an estimated 145 million in the U.S.) have a bad effect on children, rolled up an impressive backing of parent-teacher associations and clubwomen. The publishers unwittingly did their bit. To prove to Parliament that their books were really good clean fun, they distributed them to M.P.s Many were so aghast at them that they hustled to support Fulton...
Last week, Parliament outlawed crime comics. The broad new law provides up to two years' imprisonment for anyone who "makes, prints, publishes, distributes, sells" or possesses "for any such purposes" a comic which "exclusively or substantially comprises matter depicting pictorially the commission of crimes, real or fictitious...
...statistics released by the Bavarian Government last week document the shocking fact that former Nazi party members hold a majority of civil service posts in the more important state ministries. Anyone who read beyond the encouraging headlines on last summer's election for the first Federal Parliament knew the multitude of totalitarian splinter groups campaigning and electing in Bavaria. Yet last week, the Occupation lifted licensing regulations on political parties...