Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rather than crack the Coalition at mid-invasion (and probably commit party suicide). Greenwood & Co. simply resolved not to vote. Labor Minister Ernest Bevin propelled his big bulk across the House floor, stopped in front of Greenwood Grated Bevin: "So you won't vote, eh?" Greenwood grinned at him, turned with a grin to the nearly 200 Laborites ranged behind him, sat tight. So did they. Once again, they were in revolt against their own leaders in the Government...
...Dutch voice from London spoke to Dutchmen doing labor for the Nazis in Belgium, France and The Netherlands: "Commit acts of sabotage whenever a chance arises . . . damage highways, railroads, waterways. . . . Your chance is here to do your part in the liberation of your country...
...Ubico grows richer, he grows more solicitous for property rights. His latest legal masterpiece (Decree #2795, April 22, 1944) "exempts landowners or their representatives from criminal responsibility for acts they commit against trespassers caught gathering game, fruit or firewood. . . ." In practice, a landowner may kill a hungry Indian caught plucking berries; he may kill a refractory laborer, no questions asked...
...years has deprived the Negro of his right to vote in Atlanta while seeking his vote . . . in Harlem." But they have made economic gains under the New Deal; "they will not leave that party for vague assurances of future action expressed in pious platitudes. The Republican Party . . . should commit itself unequivocally and specifically to federal anti-poll tax and anti-lynching statutes...
...London. He gave De Gaulle and the French Empire much credit for tangible contributions to Allied victory, said that these services entitled the De Gaulle Government to "the fourth place in the Grand Alliance" against Hitler. And the Prime Minister painstakingly explained the reservations: "We do not wish to commit ourselves . . . without more knowledge than we now possess of the situation in the interior of France...