Word: convert
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Obviously not a convert to Spanish Republicanism, he nevertheless repudiates in most emphatic and explicit tones the entire administration of the Caudillo and would substitute for it a constitutional monarchy. As forceful as his dislike of Franco is Hoare's hearty endorsement of Count Francisco Jordana, who was for two years Franco's Minister for Foreign Affairs. He credits the success of the North African invasion operations partly to Jordana's co-operative and discreet attitude--"pro-Ally to the core...
Government-in-exile, was only recently a convert to Poland's Communist-dominated Government. Officially he was a member of the Young Catholic Party, which is part of the Government bloc, but has a name which Warsaw hoped might lead some in the U.S. to think the opposite...
Obviously, Bishop Benjamin would be difficult to convert to Alexei's viewpoint, best revealed in a recent statement: "The main thing the Russian Orthodox Church achieved during the war was to show the entire world its complete unity with its Government...
...spite of recent Communist gains, the Socialists, led by lithe, 44-year-old Jai Prakash Narain, are still the strongest group in the Congress Party's left wing. Narain went to the Universities of California, Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio State, became a convert to Communism in Chicago, where he sat up late talking to intellectuals. Returning to India, he soon abandoned Communism for Socialism because the Communists tried to impose a Moscow-dictated line on India. Narain's estimated 1,000,000 followers (out of India's 4,000,000 industrial workers) do not include Narain...
This week the 21st branch "Borstal," on the Earl of Plymouth's Worcestershire estate, opened its doors. Working without supervision, an advance party of Borstal boys began to restore the Earl of Plymouth's formal gardens and help convert his 52-bedroom mansion into a home for 150 Borstal delinquents. In their spare time they studied engineering and carpentering. Before the Borstal boys arrived, the worried villagers had thrown up their hands at the prospect of such "rough, nasty" neighbors; now some of them had invited the boys into their homes...