Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crisis in Rome. In Italy Premier Ivanoe Bonomi was still trying to find somebody to join his Cabinet. Communists, Socialists and Actionists had tried to form a cabinet around Count Carlo Sforza. But British Ambassador Sir Noel Charles blocked the move. Britain, he said, did not consider Sforza a reliable man. Said Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden: "Italy has not been our ally . . . throughout this war." Eden on Sforza: "He told us he would pursue a certain course. . . . He did not pursue it. ... Recently he has been . . . working against the government of Bonomi. . . . We would prefer not to have...
...trial lasted 23 days. All of the defendants offered alibis. Two, in addition, claimed as proof of innocence the fact that they had been circumcised. Circumcised persons are forbidden to join in the ritual of painting stools with human blood. The seven jurors (six natives, one European) retired, scanned the exhibits, deliberated three hours. The verdict: all defendants guilty...
They reacted vigorously. Air Minister Charles Gavan Power, a shrewd Quebec politician and one of the ablest Cabinet Ministers, submitted his resignation at once. Four French-speaking Liberals (Jean-François Pouliot, Wilfrid LaCroix, Charles E. Parent, Maurice Bourget), strode across the floor to join the Opposition. M. LaCroix cried: "Trahison!" (Treason!) at Mr. King as he went...
...asked Vice Premier Jan Kwapinski, a Socialist (and Russophobe), to form a new government. But with the Peasant Party gone, it did not look as if he would succeed. For ex-Premier Mikolajczyk there were two courses open: 1) he could go into permanent political exile; 2) he could join the Lublin Government, for whom his prestige made him a great catch...
...sent to the Senate the names of two appointees to the new Surplus Property Board. They were Connecticut's ex-Governor Robert A. Hurley, 49, and Lieut. Colonel Edward Hellman Heller, 44, multimillionaire member of one of San Francisco's first families, who resigned seven directorships to join the Army. Fifteen minutes after the names reached the Hill, the squall broke...