Word: government
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wisely improvised a solution on the ground which had stopped the fighting short of unnecessary bloodshed. The President went on to describe the arrangement with Admiral Darlan as "temporary," and he used the word "temporary" five times. No permanent alliance arrangement would be made with Darlan. The French Govern ment is to be re-established by the French people themselves "after they have been set free." He had asked, in North Africa, the abrogation of all laws based on Nazi ideology, and the liberation of all persons who had opposed the Nazis. With evident satisfaction he slapped down the final...
...remain your guide. You have but one duty: Obey. You have but one government, over which I have been given power to govern. You have but one country, France, which I incarnate...
...been seen lolling along in a native tonga (cart) toward a nearby village, where the captured officers are popular because they have so much money to squander. This situation is altogether proper and legal: Britain is merely observing the Geneva Convention, which 29 nations adopted in 1935 to govern the treatment of prisoners...
...mean that a second front would be opened this year, the Russians and many others wanted to know precisely what it did mean.* The Russians had not learned that Anglo-Saxon utterances must be weighed with a delicate skepticism. They had been brought up to take what their Govern-ment said and like it.* Besides, the Russians, almost to a man, could see no arguments whatever against a second front. They were fighting a war in one country-their invaded own. There might be war in Britain, North Africa, China, the Pacific -to Russians deep in their awful present...
Professor Hagan from the University of Illinois is to take over some of the instruction previously carried by Assistant Professor Merle Fainsod and Dr. Lincoln Gordon, both of whom are now in Washington. Professor Hagan, who has been teaching the courses on govern- ment regulation of industry at the Illinois for the last six years, will collaboration with Professor William Y. Elliott in Government 29a, which will deal primarily with war-time controls of economic life, and will have charge of Government 29b, dealing with government regulation in time of peace. He will also tutor a number of students...