Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Swedish volunteers were killed in Finland last week (see p. 34). Stockholm's largest four newspapers carried full-page advertisements saying: "Now that the world knows what it is to be a Finn, it is your duty to show what it means to be a Swede. Make up your mind now and join the Swedish volunteer Army. With Finland for Sweden...
...sleek, sharp-tongued, C. I. O.-hating bad boy of Canadian politics, Ontario's Premier Mitchell Frederick Hepburn, broke with his Party chief, Canada's Prime Minister. Ever since then the two men have avoided and talked about each other like a couple of feuding Corsicans. Last week Mitchell Hepburn took a potshot at William Lyon Mackenzie King...
...King split is generally thought to be due to Mitch Hepburn's ambitions and personal jealousy. Ontario's Premier is a kind of Huey Long, and there is not room for both a King and a Kingfish in Canadian politics. As he submitted the condemnatory resolution last week, Mitch Hepburn said: "I stand firm on the statement that he [King] has not done his duty by his country and he never will. I am going to take my political future in my hands. If we are not reflecting the overwhelming sentiment of the people of Ontario, then...
...Mackenzie King, introduced a motion before the Legislature in Cape Town: "Resolved, That this House is of the opinion that the time has come for the state of war against Germany to be ended and for peace to be restored." Voting on the resolution was postponed until this week, but it was considered doomed to certain defeat...
Ever since Denmark's Premier Thorvald Stauning made a pessimistic New Year's broadcast, Copenhagen papers have debated whether he meant to imply that the country would not resist if invaded. Most of them demanded a stiffer stand. Last week they got it. Bucked by Sweden's plain talk to Russia (see above), the six major parties of Denmark's Folketing (lower house) jointly moved and passed unanimously (one North Schleswig member not voting) a resolution which said...