Word: reaffirmations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They voted for abolition. Under British procedure the bill could not become law until approved by the House of Lords, or if they chose not to approve, Commons could, at the end of two years, reaffirm its vote and make it law anyway. But, with four murderers under death sentence, impulsive, humanitarian Home Secretary Chuter Ede did not even wait for the bill to reach debate in the House of Lords. He reprieved them...
...London News Chronicle as Godspeed: ". . . In a world starved of American currency . . . there is little we can do to help Canada at the moment. But at least we can take the occasion of Mr. Mackenzie King's presence in London to acknowledge our great debt, and to reaffirm that nothing shall be left undone which might enable us to assist wherever and whenever...
...reaffirm our desire . . . to affiliate with SDA and hope that it will be possible for us to become an SDA chapter. In the mean while we will work closely with SDA on all projects . . . and urge all HLU members to become members...
Before the Assembly convenes again in April, the British (who only want to get out) would have to recast or reaffirm their India policy-unless Patel could re-corner Jinnah and mollify the nawabs and maharajas...
...Jews all over the world, in the election of delegates to a new World Zionist Congress, were passing judgment on the wisdom of this strategy of terror. On Dec. 9, the newly elected Congress would meet in Basel, Switzerland, to choose a new Jewish Agency Executive and reframe or reaffirm Jewish policy on Palestine...