Word: consent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to this record, Russia was promised a second front for 1942. On this same record, Churchill and Roosevelt did not make the promise in a burst of unmilitary optimism. They made it with the advice and consent of their military advisers, men who must then have been aware of the facts which were still being cited last week to prove that a second front in 1942 will certainly be difficult, that it may fail, and that it may even be impossible...
...great careers in the Red Army: he was successively a local, regional and national official of the Party; the while he attended Red Army schools, commanded Red troops in the field. His associates, superiors and teachers were often the generals whom Stalin purged, with the active or passive consent of Timoshenko and the others who survived and rose in the aftermath. The western world has never made up its mind about the purges. It may be that, as Moscow said, traitors to the U.S.S.R. dominated the Red Army, that the first battles of the war with Hitler were...
...candidates for the Enlisted Reserve Corps who have had their physical examinations should be sure to report to Lieutenant Williams at Wadsworth House, bringing with them their birth certificates and parents consent forms, if completed. If these are not completed, report just the same. This does not apply to those who have already reported after their physical...
Said Gandhi: "It is a bad job because it is an imposition on India. It is not at India's request or consent that they are here. It is enough irritation that we were not consulted before being dragged into war-that is our original complaint-but to have brought American forces here is to tighten the stranglehold on us. I am not prejudiced against Americans and my thousands of friends in America, but it is my point that all these things are not happening at the invitation of India...
...Cratoplutes." A "sadder and wiser" Italy than the one he had known when he marched with Italian troops in Ethiopia was what New York Timesman Herbert Matthews left behind. He minimized the chance of revolt in Italy, but found it "difficult to conceive of a Government with less popular consent than Fascism has today...