Word: pledgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promises that the British Government would heed the voice of its people-and of the Russians-had been piling up for weeks past. But, wrapped in the rhetoric of Winston Churchill and the cautious legal phrases of Sir Stafford Cripps, they had somehow lacked the impact of a pledge. Last...
"Mr. Churchill has agreed that this is a people's war. We mean to win it, but we want from him a pledge that a people's war will issue in a people's peace."
This carefully phrased pledge of a second front was made after the Government had faced two days of Parliamentary criticism. But few of Churchill's Parliamentary prosecutors last week made a noise comparable to the clamorous public demand for heavy offensive action.
To the collection of doodads on the desk of Doodaddict Franklin D. Roosevelt was added a thingamajig that would have gladdened the heart of any patriotic hex. It was a figure of Adolf Hitler, leaning over like a fraternity pledge awaiting a paddle. On its rump, a pincushion.
The plebiscite was on the question: Should the Government be released from its pledge not to conscript manpower for service overseas? The Canadian electorate voted Yes by a more than 2-to-1 vote-and the Cabinet thereupon split over whether to enforce conscription immediately. For the second consecutive weekend...