Word: pledgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried the press: "Pernambuco is a concentration camp without fences." At week's end, Brazil's President reassuringly decreed amnesty for many of the demonstrators against his regime. To those who doubted his electoral pledge, Vargas stated solemnly: "I have promised free, honest elections. I shall preside over...
The upshot was that the President got exactly what he wanted: Stalin's definite pledge to come in on a definite date (August 15, said the best available sources). Now, whatever the political implications to be faced later in Asia, the U.S. armies would not have to help the...
The leaders of North America's 350,000 Russian Orthodox Church members reached a firm and weighty decision: they would not reunite with the mother church in Russia. Reason: the mother church would not back down on its demand for a pledge of loyalty to the Soviet Government.
After U.S. recognition of Russia (1933), the Russian Synod demanded a pledge of loyalty to the Soviets, promptly suspended the North American church when it was refused. Recently Russia's new primate, Patriarch Alexei, had a new try. But in his ukase was a familiar clause: the North American...
Last week Moscow's Patriarch had his answer. It came from San Francisco's Metropolitan Theophilus and his clergy, who had carefully studied the new terms: "It would be inconsistent with the duties and obligations of loyal American and Canadian citizens, and contrary to the traditional atmosphere of...