Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear that we will give less tools to Britain if we join in the war? The solution is not for us to go to war but to give her every tool that will readily serve her regardless of our own preparedness...
Blitz Without Roads? If the decision is to burst, Russia must be reckoned with, and Russia has promised Turkey not to join in any attack on her. Against Germany alone Turkey could put up a respectable, though probably not a winning, fight. Chief of Staff Marshal Fevzi Cak-mak (pronounced Chockmock) says that Turkey is an infantryman's paradise, with hills, valleys and passes that crack riflemen and machine-gunners could hold. Infantry is the Army's pride, as it has been since the days of the Janizaries. The infantry is rendered stronger by the fact that...
...expressed a profound loathing for the sight of moonrise over the Inland Sea. Some Far Eastern experts at once suspected all manner of guile behind the Japanese words. It was suggested that Japan was jockeying for a peace with Chiang Kaishek, preferably for one which would bind him to join Japan in war on the Chinese Communists...
...most-favored-nation basis, the treaty called for reciprocal tariff reductions and shipping concessions. It gave Japan the right to join Indo-China in exploiting her undeveloped resources (formerly a French monopoly), provided for the building of Japanese schools in Indo-China...
...when the smoke cleared, the bill was law. Meanwhile Ernest Bevin's Labor Ministry issued a series of decrees making it harder than ever for school ties to avoid military and defense service by going on to a university. Students from 19 up are now required to join student military-training units, report their progress in university to recruiting boards, and if they fall behind in their studies they may be called up at once. Only scientific, dental and medical students get this exemption. Students of arts and humanities can get just a one-year draft deferment to enter...