Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advocate Universal Military Training as a "character and health builder" is to point a finger of shame at our homes and educational systems. If these are so poor, so ignorant or so depraved that the draft is needed to train young men, then it would seem self-evident that we should spend more money for better schools, more for public health, and work out some educational and character-building program for young parents...
...that good enough? One who thought not was the hardheaded Premier of Belgium, Paul-Henri Spaak. When the draft of a treaty against "German aggression" was shown to the Benelux countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg), they replied that such a basis was "inadequate." Spaak and his neighbors wanted mutual aid that would start "automatically" in case of hostilities with Germany "or a state connected directly or indirectly with Germany's action." Toward better definition of the Bevin Gesture, they suggested a "regional organization" for Western Europe, within the framework of U.N., on the lines of the American hemisphere defense...
Sprawled comfortably in his high-backed committee chair, Chairman Vandenberg was obviously feeling pleased with his contribution. After more than a month of hearings and five days of closed-door conferences, his Foreign Relations Committee had approved, by unanimous vote, the first draft of the European Recovery Program. The job had been done without a major fight...
...week's end, Abdullah's emissaries and the British had concluded a treaty draft which, the British hoped, would keep Abdullah happy. Its terms promised to continue his military subsidy, cut down (on paper) British rights to use Trans-Jordan as a military base. But the British, fearing a repetition of the painful episode when Iraqi mobs had forced the Iraq government to reject a similar treaty after it had been signed and announced in London, were taking no chances this time. Abdullah's delegation took back only "fairly definite proposals," not a signed treaty. Said...
This book is like the first draft of a wonderful novel by Andre Malraux. The author is now, like Malraux, a member of the Executive Committee of General de Gaulle's "R.P.F." During the war, Colonel Gilbert Renault, who went by the name "Rémy," among other names, organized a network of intelligence agents in occupied France. His territory included the entire Atlantic coast, from Dieppe to Bayonne. The raid on the French coast at Bruneval and the raid in force that crippled the great drydock at St.-Nazaire (denying any haven outside Germany to the battleship Tirpitz...