Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual when he speaks, in or out of office, Winston Churchill set the world agog, this time with: 1) an assault on Russia; 2) a plea for combining the military strength of the U.S. and Britain in a "fraternal association." The plea, not new, was nevertheless startling at this juncture of world affairs...
...month following President Conant's February 12 plea for help in locating accommedations for married veterans, the Housing Office has received replies from 220 of the 16,000 alumni within a ten-mile radius of Harvard Square...
Byrnes had been forced into taking his position. The day before he spoke, Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg had also made a speech calling for a more dynamic foreign policy (see below). Vandenberg's plea, applauded by the nation, was a clear challenge. Byrnes's fellow delegate to the UNO London conference had not even mentioned the fact that Byrnes was also there. The omission was almost contemptuous. Vandenberg had pointed to Stettinius, Vishinsky, Bevin (especially Bevin, who had so inspired the Senator that "my hat flew off"). Byrnes had given the delegation little or no guidance. Over...
...going to put in a plea for the late starters. . . . The university education may be even better appreciated by those in the early twenties than by those in the late teens." Churchill urged veterans, whose educations were "slashed across by [war's] flaming sword," to put his theory to "a practical and a supreme application...
...Mercy Plea. Niemoller joined Lutheran Bishop Theophil Wurm of Stuttgart and other Germans in pleading mercy for his country. The delegates agreed with their German colleagues that the Allies' Potsdam declaration had not been carried out. Then they passed resolutions, significantly read to the press by the Archbishop of Canterbury, protesting...