Word: pledgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quite possibly Matthews and his unimpeachable source were wrong. At least, Britain and the U.S. were not keeping any such pledge. They were forcibly repatriating Red Army deserters and Axis sympathizers, but had turned down requests to hand over ordinary refugees.
Nor was the U.S. deceived by the "strategy of camouflage" to which the regime had turned after the failure of Germany in the Ardennes. It was still the same old spotted cat. "By its brutal use of force and terrorist methods to strike down all opposition from the Argentine people...
There was good reason to believe they would succeed. Almost overnight, Canada's youngest university had become its second largest (7,000 students), outranked only by Toronto (11,000). In the past year U.B.C. added law courses to its curriculum, won a pledge of $5,000,000 for new...
Fortunately for most of them, and tragically for a few, American college students, even those who had signed the Oxford Pledge, emptied the temples of the higher learning after Pearl Harbor, and especially after the 18-year-old draft law was passed in the autumn of 1942. Enrollment plunged to...
Last week the Times glowed: "Dr. Eduardo Zuleta Angel of Colombia, formally opening yesterday's session, hoped that the Assembly might become 'the town meeting of the world.' . . . Let us forget the scarecrow of the 'superstate' and put this vision in its place." Said Secretary...