Word: facto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France remained impassive. Without abrogating its League of Nations mandate, France had recognized the de facto independence of the Levant states in the dark days of 1943. Now, the Quai d'Orsay wished to buttress its position with a treaty of alliance and friendship giving France strategic rights (air fields in Syria, naval bases in The Lebanon), economic privileges (preferential tariff treatment), cultural advantages (French to be a compulsory school language). The Lebanese and Syrians are willing to compromise only on the first point...
...peace and war-especially in war. But all this strikes Job as mere "justifying ex-post-facto excuses"-and he presses God for a better answer. God seems to have nothing better, and Job soliloquizes on the inanity of metaphysical questioning...
...none of his colleagues seemed to want it. In normal times its functions are routine: presiding over the Senate when the Vice President is away. But Senator McKellar could consider another possibility. If the President of the U.S. dies, the Senate President pro tem becomes the de facto Vice President of the U.S. (without inheriting the right of succession). And in that event, Spoilsman McKellar would also get a $5,000-a-year salary increase, plus a Government automobile, with chauffeur...
Last week, after more than a year of trying to make up their minds, the Governments of the U.S. and Britain recognized General Charles de Gaulle's Government as the Provisional Government of France. So did the Canadian Government. Russia, which had already given virtual de facto recognition (after the Quebec Conference in August 1943) to De Gaulle's Government, now also recognized it de jure...
...Almost-but not officially-recognized the De Gaulle Government in France, referred to it, for the first time, as a de facto "government" (see FOREIGN NEWS...