Word: function
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Allies, against the counsel of his ministers-tossed in the sponge, ordered his army to lay down its arms. Premier Reynaud embittered, sarcastic, told his people by radio of the action "without precedent in history." Despite their King's order, he said, the Belgian Government would continue to function, would "raise a new army" to fight alongside the allies who came to aid them...
...might add, busily engaged in trying to build up the reserve military forces of the U. S. in my own little sphere so that should the time come, God forbid, that reserve military forces are needed, they will be ready to move in with the regulars and function. I remember all too well the late Mr. Bryan's two million men who were to spring to arms overnight...
Lorries carried the assault tanks to their scene of action, unloading and readying them for action in five minutes. Their function, following the breakthrough, was to fan out and attack troops in trenches, nests, pillboxes. Some were said to spew flames 70 yards into blockhouse ventilators and machine-gun nests...
...Allied generalissimo, Maxime Weygand (see p. 23). ∧ Back in London, Prime Minister Churchill lunched on Friday at the Japanese Embassy with Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu, Minister at Large Tatsuo Kawai, French Ambassador Charles Corbin and the Iranian Minister. Significant was this first official function Mr. Churchill had found time to attend. It was a safe guess that Mr. Churchill indicated no desire to jump The Netherlands East Indies. Still open, however, was the question of how long the Japanese would wait to see what Germany, the "protector" of The Netherlands, would do about her colonies. Saturday Mr. Churchill...
...opinion are the responsibilities of government administrators. Here "the scope of political action must be clearly defined." Detailed control of business, in his opinion, requires great bureaucracies, which in return require a dictator with "power to break through the coils of red tape if the machine is to function...