Word: edict
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Swiss diplomats feared that such undiplomatic talk by high officials might ruffle the feelings of the French, but something had to be done. Despite the 1927 edict against Swiss joining foreign armies (except the Papal Guard at the Vatican), between 300 and 500 young Swiss join the Foreign Legion every year...
...policy in the Far East, the U.S. has no "double personality," said Dulles. The U.S. does not seek peace in Europe and war in Asia. But he reminded his NATO listeners of Lenin's old edict -that the Communist road to victory in Europe lay through the rubble of revolution in Asia. All the U.S. is trying to do is to check Communism there, "as we have here...
...Karachi last week, iron-minded, frail bodied Governor General Ghulam Mohammed decreed for himself further "emergency powers." He signed an edict combining four provinces (Sind, Baluchistan, West Punjab and Northwest Frontier Province) and several princely states into one unit called West Pakistan (pop. 33.5 million). He put his civil servants to work on what Pakistan's Constituent Assembly had for seven years failed to achieve-a constitution...
Issued "in the interest of those who come to the Harvard Stadium each Saturday to enjoy a football game," the sudden edict is designed to reduce dangers to spectators from those who have been drinking excessively...
...early this year, the chief surgeon, a stern moralist as well as a martinet, learned that Rudloff was involved in a clandestine love affair with a female nurse on the staff. The chief surgeon told them bluntly to break off their romance or get out. Rudloff bowed to the edict, but his resentment deepened. Soon bad luck began to attend the chief surgeon's practice. Three of his patients, well on the road to recovery after their operations, suddenly took a turn for the worse and died. In each case, death was attributed to postoperative complications and the bodies...