Word: attender
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Months More. Delegates for each of 50 member nations would sign the charter. Then each signer would also write his name on "Paper Two." This document sets up a Preparatory Commission, which will attend to certain necessary housekeeping chores. Somebody has to negotiate with the old League of Nations to take over files, functions. and probably some employes. A budget for the new organization must be worked out. And the ticklish question of a permanent seat must be settled. Geneva and The Hague appeared to be out of the running-too many ghosts there. Among the other possibilities: Prague, Oslo...
From Chungking to Yenan went an invitation: would Communist leaders Mao Tse-tung, Chou Enlai, Tung Pi-wu, Lin Tsu-han, Chen Shao-yu and Teng Yingchao (Mrs. Chou Enlai) attend the July meeting of the People's Political Council, which will plan a national constitutional assembly? From Yenan to Chungking went a curt reply...
...some safely Liberal constituency (probably near Ottawa) in a by-election. Actual by-election balloting might be unnecessary: other parties were not likely to oppose Mr. King, and he would win by acclamation. Whatever happened, the Prime Minister indicated, he would have a seat in plenty of time to attend the opening of Parliament. The date for that, he said...
...unit command schools (established by battalions) like St. Germain's form by far the biggest part of the pro gram. By August i there will be one such school for every 1,000 soldiers. Every soldier who is not assigned to urgent duty will be required to attend for two hours a day (unless he prefers drill and supervised athletics) until there is enough shipping space to bring him home...
...Prince by Oscar Wilde at a London garden party, who called them "the two most beautiful per sons at the party." Died. General John Milton Claypool, 98, unreconstructed Confederate, twice national commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans; of pneumonia; in St. Louis. Once, reluctantly agreeing to attend a Union-Confederate reunion at Gettysburg, he magnanimously conceded: "Since the Lord has put up with the Yankees all this time, I guess...