Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Properly angered, Japan tightened the Tientsin blockade - stopped the passage of food into the British concession, turned on the juice in the encircling electrified barbed wire. None but Italians and White Russians were allowed to take food into the concession. Concession prices rose sky high, while the Tientsin American Chamber of Commerce prepared to appeal to Washington. This week the Japanese Cabinet met to discuss what must at length be discussed in every Japanese crisis: how to back down, save face, win new popularity with the Japanese people, leave the way open for renewal of friction...
...Seven weeks later, before M. Bonnet made a speech in the Chamber of Deputies reaffirming the French-Polish alliance, he first called in German Ambassador Count Johannes von Welczeck to explain. The Ambassador reported to Berlin...
...Nevertheless Herr Ribbentrop directed the Count to protest, whereupon the Ambassador reported: "M. Bonnet said that in foreign political debates before the Chamber things were often said that obviously were meant only for internal consumption and did not have any further importance." M. Bonnet contended, wired the Ambassador to his chief, that when he "braved the opposition" to put across "justified German demands," he could scarcely be expected to "abdicate all along the line before the Chamber." "If I did so," the Foreign Minister was quoted as saying, "then the warmongers would gain the upper hand...
...vote was moved. The Chamber's division bell rang. A few straddling Liberals left the room rather than commit themselves. The Provincial Legislature then condemned the National Government -aye, 44 (including the entire Conservative Opposition...
...Chamber then proceeded to re-elect its regular President (Speaker), popular Edouard Herriot. Once the Soviet Union's most potent friend in France, Speaker Herriot last week denounced Moscow as "a regime seeking to crush the weak," called for maximum French aid to the Finns, brought the Deputies to their feet shouting, "Long live Finland!" The last three Reds said nothing, but it did not appear that they could stay, even if meek. Vice Premier Camille Chautemps introduced a bill to expel every last Red in France from office - from Chamber, Senate, from national, provincial and municipal offices...