Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's Central Hall, Westminster, the organ played solemn music as the Labor delegates mustered for the Party's annual conference. Behind the platform hung an impressive banner proclaiming "A People's Peace." Crowds of young delegates, many of them in uniform, were eager to define policy and state where Labor stood. A general election, Britain's first in nine years, was in the offing. Labor thought it had a real chance...
...Belgium King Leopold surrendered, but Cardinal van Roey, heroic successor to heroic Cardinal Mercier, publicly forswore Catholic collaboration with "an oppressive regime" and forbade his priests to give the sacrament to anyone wearing the German uniform. Rather than let the Nazis prostitute the educational system, he closed the schools and universities. Throughout Europe, when the universities and the press and the writers and philosophers were silenced, "only the churches"-in the words of Albert Einstein-"stood squarely across the path of Hitler...
...Berggrav and his Church awoke from their dream of peace. Rallying to the defense of Norwegian liberty, representatives of all branches and factions of the Church met to form the Christian Council for Joint Deliberation, and Eivind Berggrav cried: "God made us Norwegian. He will not put you in uniform and destroy your individuality. He will save you and liberate you. All Christians in this land are now facing in the same direction...
...Sack. At Fort Lewis, Wash., Pfc. Sol Katz, back from leave in The Bronx, reported that he had lost his watch when a jewelry repair store was robbed, his uniform when the cleaners burned down, one of his medals to a thief on the train, his garrison cap, which he left in the baggage rack; found that he had returned from furlough a day early...
...young reservists had shown any enthusiasm over staying in uniform after World War II. Navy officials hoped that they might still change their minds, banked on the fact that many a young reservist with no other specialized schooling than what he had had from the Navy would conclude that his best chance for the future lay in a naval career...