Word: cautionings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening of invasion, and called on them to resist the Germans "with all means . . . wherever resistance is possible." Both leaders added special warnings to underground fighters not to be tricked into premature action, but to follow only genuine Allied orders broadcast from London. Similar messages of encouragement and caution went to Norway from King Haason VII, to Poland from Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk...
Japanese naval caution was explained in part by new statistics in the silent, relentless war by U.S. submarines. The U.S. Navy Department announced 15 more Japanese vessels sunk by subs. Total sinkings of Japanese war and merchant ships since Pearl Harbor: 1,288 sunk, probably sunk, and damaged...
...when the Canadians overseas were edgy and impatient under their long inaction, he addressed them and was roundly booed. This time the troops knew that action could not be long delayed. Cabled the suspicious correspondent of the King-hating Toronto Evening Telegram: "C.O.'s had been primed to caution their men . . . to be on their best behavior. . . ." The only grouse heard from the ranks was the not-so-cryptic remark of a hard-bitten private with no love for dress parades: "I wonder if they can read our thoughts...
...unable to discover conclusive evidence that the railroads would get better prices for their issues through competitive bidding. It found it "reason able to believe" that they would. Sensibly, it held that only an actual test would tell how the system will work out. As a pre caution, the ICC left a big loophole in its ruling: competitive bidding can be waived by the ICC on specific bond issues...
...twelve families that own England." Their coat of arms: sable, three bucks' heads cabossed argent with a crest of a serpent nowed proper and two bucks, each wreathed round the neck with a chaplet of roses, argent and azure, as supporters. The Cavendish motto: Cavendo Tutus, Secure by Caution...