Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representatives from nine colleges in the Boston area attended the meeting. The delegation from each college was assigned a line of business to enlist in the program...
Their immediate goal in the fight against the draft, according to YPH president Jerry Gordon, is to enlist the leaders of undergraduate and graduate organizations as active members of a United Anti-Draft Committee, and to collect as many signatures as possible on a petition to be sent to President Truman. A mass "stop-the-draft" rally will be held before the Christmas vacation, and a series of faculty-and-student debates are being planned...
...Council has been reluctant to use force in Palestine. The United Nations charter does not allow the use of force in upholding political decisions--in this case, partition--but it does specifically entitle the Security Council to enlist armed troops for maintaining international peace. A police force would presumably draw upon manpower from several nations; up to now, no one in the Council has been able to agree which ones. The Western Powers are wary of letting Russian troops into the Near East; but they are unwilling to employ their own forces and risk straining economic relations with the Arab...
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...Tentative Arrangements." At Yalta, Sherwood reminded his readers, F.D.R. was doing his utmost to enlist Russia's aid in the war against Japan (the atom bomb had not been finally developed). Stalin laid down his terms. In addition to Japanese-mandated southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, Stalin wanted title to the Chinese ports of Dairen and Port Arthur, use of the Manchurian railways. Otherwise Stalin did not see how he could ever explain to his people why Russia was going to war against Japan...