Word: defaulters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Tunic." In the midst of national confusion, President Félix Gouin kept a Socialist calm, said, "The main virtue of the Constitution is that it exists." Other leaders deplored the possibility that Frenchmen might plump for the Red-inspired charter simply by default. Philippe Barrès, editor of Paris-Presse, put it this way: "What would worry me . . . would be the spectacle of a people so disillusioned as to adopt a new Constitution in the same way as a conscripted soldier arriving gloomily at the barracks accepts the first tunic which a sergeant tosses...
Yesterday's win, the first athletic victory of the season for the Commuters, puts them into the exalted position of a four-place tie for the lead with Kirkland, Navy Company 1, which won by default Wednesday from Company 2, and Navy Company 3, who beat Navy Company 4 the same...
While the war was still on, opponents feared that peacetime conscription might be rushed through Congress while the nation was in a mood to clutch at any military straw. Now a new possibility appeared: would the nation reject the idea by default, without ever agreeing that it was either good or bad? At week's end an Associated Press poll of Senators showed 25 in favor of the plan, 19 opposed, 40 undecided and in no hurry to make up their minds...
...British position in the Washington loan negotiations was delicate; for a people less self-assured it would have been impossible. The British knew that they could not recover without a U.S. loan; that they could not pay normal interest. (A default would compromise the essential U.S.British political alliance.) On the other hand, Britain would never ask for charity...
...Unity by Default. But if their formal union was gone, the British and Americans were still united by a common lack of policy: long-range policies were still either undecided or secret. Ordinary soldiers of the occupation armies were beginning to ask: what's going to be done with Germany? Will it be permanently divided into small states? With political activity banned, how can a democratic Germany develop...