Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would the British accept? Wrote Streit with confidence: "The British consider such a proposition practicable and await only our invitation...
...fighting by ourselves, alone; but we are not fighting for ourselves, alone. Here in this strong city of refuge which enshrines the title deeds of human progress and is of deep consequence to Christian civilization . . . we await undismayed the impending assault...
Suggested solutions included the sending of the Canadian Air Force to Eire and the transfer of the Polish and Czech Legions, together with the French Legion organized by General Charles de Gaulle, to Northern Ireland to await developments. But last week, as military experts emphasized the urgent necessity of closing the "Irish back door," the popular demand grew in England for a final settlement of the Irish question through sacrificing Lord Craigavon and the six Northern counties in return for a unified defense of the British Isles...
...Canadian volunteers (including expatriate Finns) who got to Finland, about 40 saw front-line fighting, 14 were killed. Some were unfit for soldiering. Many needed training, were still getting it at camps in northern Finland when the war ended. In Finnish towns where they were sent to await shipment home, the volunteers were so royally treated that many stayed...
...Canada Juliana reportedly would await the birth of the child who may be Holland's first king since 1890, if he has a kingdom to return to. Alexander Loudon, Netherlands Minister to the U.S., when asked if the blessed event was in prospect, hedged: "A royal child born on the soil of freedom-loving America would be both a blessing and a good omen...