Word: conference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Charles de Gaulle sent word to the fuming, frustrated Consultative Assembly: gladly would he confer with them about his Ministers. Into his presence trooped some three dozen leaders of France's advisory parliament...
...mindful of the future of our 450,000,000 people and conscious of standing at the bar of history, would wish to plunge the country into a civil war. The Government has shown its readiness and is always ready to confer with the Communists to bring about a real and lasting settlement with them...
Lion Cub. In Niles, Mich., the local Lions Club planned to confer honorary life membership on Fred Banke, aged...
...Moscow Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, U.S. Ambassador Harriman and British Ambassador Kerr will confer with Poles on forming this new provisional government. It "shall be pledged to holding free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot. In these elections all democratic and anti-Nazi parties shall have the right ... to put forward candidates...
...dissension arose over Premier Nicholas Plastiras' insistence that the hostages must be freed before discussions on permanent peace could begin. The unity of EAM was also threatened. The ELD (Union of Popular Democracy), second most powerful party in the EAM coalition, announced that it was breaking away, would confer independently with British Ambassador Reginald Leeper. Professor Alexander Svolos, white-haired, respected ex-leader of EAM's Provisional Government during its 18-month existence, called for immediate peace. The Salonika branch of the SKE (Socialist Party, another large group), also broke away from...