Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Resolved by the House of Representatives [the Senate concurring'] that the Congress hereby expresses itself as favoring the creation of appropriate international machinery with power adequate to establish and maintain a just and lasting peace among the nations of the world, and as favoring participation by the United States therein...
...Peace-and After. Right now, Hoover & Gibson urge, some of the leading United Nations should be selected as "Trustees of Peace," who would, as soon as fighting ends, maintain world order, restore international law and set up the permanent "world institution...
...there were reasons, just as potent, why Russia and Japan should maintain a watchful neutrality. Each has half a million to a million troops posted on the long Siberian-Manchukuoan frontier. The Soviet Far Eastern Army is well equipped, led by rugged General Joseph Rodionovich ("Hercules") Apanasenko. A Red Air Force and a Red submarine fleet are ready...
...this agreement, captives must be kept safe from "acts of violence, insults and public curiosity." They are prisoners but not criminals, can not be confined in penitentiaries, subjected to corporal punishment or any form of cruelty. They have regular complaint courts to vent POW frustration. They are still soldiers, maintain their own military discipline, salute only their captors of superior rank. They live like soldiers - but in a cage - and they gripe like soldiers...
...that widespread U.S. subsidies will work because Britain and Canada have used them to good advantage* overlooks the fact that the U.S. situation differs widely from the other two: 1) Britain and Canada have both concentrated on a few strategic cost-of-living items; the U.S. is trying to maintain a blanket ceiling on all prices; 2) in England, most cost-of-living items are imported, which makes Government control much simpler and cheaper; 3) in both Canada and Britain wage control has been facturers will make no more than the prewar number of cotton and rayon blends...