Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, for the first time, U.S. Protestant, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Jewish leaders united on a peace program. Appended to their "Declaration on World Peace" were 144 signatures.* These signatures do not bind any church to the peace proposals, they do commend the peace declaration to some 56,000,000 members of the participating faiths...
...victory. But in the months of the growing crisis their voice became stronger. Last April Milan Grol submitted to Premier Yovanovich a memorandum criticizing the Government's failure to: 1) smooth out relations with Russia; 2) bring about a rapprochement between the Partisans and General Draja Mihailovich; 3) bind the Government to a policy of Serbo-Croatian-Slovenian unity in federal democracy. The memorandum was never submitted to the Cabinet...
Beveridge Plan. ". . . We must beware of attempts to overpersuade or even coerce His Majesty's Government to bind themselves or their unknown successors in conditions which no one can foresee. . . . [But] the time is now ripe for another great advance. . . . You must rank me and my colleagues as strong partisans of national compulsory insurance for all classes, for all purposes from the cradle to the grave...
...Welles. The President approved it, in theory. But apparently the Administration was loth to touch off a Congressional debate: a little movement developed almost at once to stop the resolution's introduction. This was of no avail -Joe Ball has a hard jaw. While the resolution could never bind the Senate's vote on specific details of a peace treaty, it would be, if passed by a two-thirds majority, definite progress toward making the United Nations a positive and working organization...
When a child is accepted by the school, his parents legally bind themselves not to withdraw him before his 16th birthday. Books and games are provided free, but pupils must buy their own school uniforms. Boys wear grey suits and navy blue caps ringed with the green & red school colors. Girls wear white, square-necked blouses, navy-blue pleated skirts, felt hats. In warm weather they change to green cotton frocks and striped blazers...