Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inauguration last week of Juan Antonio Ríos Morales as 22nd President of the Republic of Chile was simple and democratic. Entering the Honor Hall of Parliament as a private citizen, he advanced to the rostrum, took an oath to respect the Constitution, donned the red, white & blue sash-of-office which retiring Vice President Gerónimo Méndez doffed. As "Don Anónimo" Méndez walked out, Don Juan Antonio briefly announced his Cabinet and policy. Both reflected the man, as the man mirrored the epoch...
...take the oath of the guerrilla in all true faith. . . . If necessary I will die for my country. So help...
Replied Guerrillissimo Arnold: "That spy and sniper business doesn't bother us. We've taken an oath. . . . We'd rather die [fighting] than have a bayonet run through us like they got in Hong Kong...
...with the result that only 27 of Norway's 700 parish pastors back Quisling. Last year Eivind Berggrav and his fellow bishops defied a Nazi ban and circulated a pastoral indicting the Nazis for their interference with churches, courts and schools, their effort to make pastors break their oath of silence on matters confided to them, and "the systematic rule of terror by Nazi storm troopers...
...Washington last week Mike Elizalde took an oath to uphold the Philippine Constitution as Minister without Portfolio in President Quezon's Cabinet. Thus he became in effect, the Philippine Commonwealth's Government in Exile. Of Minister Elizalde's mother and three brothers, now presumably prisoners in the hard little hands of the Japs, there was still no word...