Word: directives
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...great gasp of surprise. "My ministers are of the opinion," read the Governor General, "that the effective prosecution of the war makes it imperative that those who are charged with the grave responsibility of carrying on the Government of Canada should, in this critical period, be fortified by a direct and unquestioned mandate from the people. My advisers, accordingly, having regard to existing conditions and the stage of the life of the present Parliament, have decided upon an immediate appeal to the country...
Last week the House of Commons got its first detailed report on the effects of these measures from Minister of Economic Warfare Ronald Hibbert Cross. Tall, fair-haired, direct, pleasant, incisive, 43, a merchant-banker and civil servant of the conservative Eton-Army-business pattern, Ronald Cross is considered one of the most promising of the Government's younger supporters. Politically brash, he nevertheless once thoughtfully sent flowers to an ill and defeated opponent. His present job is to see that the enemy gets no flowers until its funeral...
This was a direct challenge to Rickard Sandler's old friend, Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson. The pained expression on the Prime Minister's face suggested that he considered it a stab in the back. Most members of the Riksdag thought it was certainly a bid for all those who want Sweden openly to enter the war against Russia to rally around Rickard Sandler. For the first time he disclosed the reason for his resignation last month, admitting that he wanted to send an expeditionary force of 10,000 men to the Aland Islands, which scheme Prime Minister...
...external skill and internal infusion of feeling, the type of art which many contemporary men have been trying to recreate, namely African Negro style. Whether the similarity between the aesthetic end of the African tribes and that of the early Americans can be traced to any specific instances of direct influence remains a point for further discussion. Evidence points to the contrary. The stylistic similarities which exist between early African and early American art can be easily detected in early Chinese art as well; but these are cultural anomalies, considering the distance separating the three continents...
...Lewis, an artillery officer in the World War, believes in the military theory, best known as that of Colonel Liddell Hart, that the best policy for the Allies is a defensive war since they cannot win by a direct attach on Germany without overwhelming losses...