'A Correct Expression Lo the Editor of the "Norrn-Cuma Dany News'
Sm;—I notice that in your issue of June 2 a correspondent, signing himself A Russian, asks for information about the body described in a Reuter news despatch from Moscow as the Soviet "Parliament."
On December 6, 1936, a new constitution was adopted in the USSR. providing for the creation of a deliberative and legislative body consisting of two separate chambers, whose membership totals 1,143 persons. It is this body that is generally referred to in the English language as the Soviet. "Parliament."
1f might interest your correspondent to know that the first definition of the word "parliament" in the Concise Oxford Dictionary is "a deliberative assembly," while the "World Alrianack" of 1999, edited and published in the United States of America, refers to the Soviet constitution of 1036 as creating "a two-chambered Parliament.
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