Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perfectly clear," said Sir Walter in a strong-man speech at Nottingham, "that the war is being used as a pretext for withholding from us this overdue rectification of a wrong. . . . Now we have decided that whatever the risks . . . we are going to re-establish organic connection with the Civil Service Trade Unions...
...ideal of collective security resulted in Wilson's attempt, through the League of Nations, to establish "a union of 50 juridically equal but otherwise unequal states, and not the evolution of a union from a nucleus of firmly allied strong states. ... If the League was a practical instrument, it contained an alliance, and all good and true men, including Wilson, were opposed to any idea of an alliance; if in fact the League outlawed alliances, and still sought to enforce peace, then it was an unlimited commitment supported by no clear means of fulfilling...
Bishop Paul Yu-pin thinks China will need not fewer than 100,000 American men and women in her reconstruction job. He proposes to establish the first employment office himself...
...Golden Age. British bankers and statesmen of the 19th Century were the first to establish a world-wide money system. After they had digested the severe lesson of the American Revolution, they largely abandoned the closed system that had previously characterized their imperial efforts and those of the Spaniards and of other empires. They groped, argued, prospected and legislated their way to a new kind of international economy. This new economy served, as no former system had even attempted, to promote profitable economic conditions in most parts of the globe. For about a hundred years, as long as Britain held...
Gafsa & El Guettar. On the night of March 17-18 General Terry Allen's 1st Division traveled 45 miles by truck to launch a surprise attack on Gafsa at daybreak. Purpose: to establish Gafsa as a supply base for the Eighth Army. The first shell that pitched toward Gafsa that morning opened the campaign that ended at Bizerte and Tunis. It was the 1st Division's first action as a complete division since it landed in Oran in November. So successful was it that the enemy got out of Gafsa without a fight, and three days later...