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...Jennifer Williams is the FT’s northern England correspondent...
...Management listened to the concerns, these people said, and empathised with the objectors’ point of view but decided against implementing their recommendations....
...Alongside other public intellectuals such as John McWhorter and Kmele Foster, Williams is a prominent figure in a kind of counter-movement pushing back against the radical and uncompromising doctrines of...
...Enoch Powell stood at the head of the English nationalists on the Tory right; Tony Benn and Peter Shore were among prominent objectors on the left....
...of the time, something of “a straight” when, as a journalism graduate from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, he patriotically enlisted with the American navy in 1941 — “I had never heard of a conscientious objector...
...The objectors have won some battles....
...Turner inherited an interest in politics from his father, a Labour supporter who during the second world war was a conscientious objector. “He just had a logical argument, which he showed me....
...Speaking to European leaders gathered in the city, Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, said: “We were enemies more than once in the last century and today we are friends and allies.”...
...On Friday, Prince William will marry Kate Middleton, bringing into the royal firm someone with experience of a real business, her parents’ party supplies company....
...The score, delivered with tremendous incisiveness by the ENO orchestra under Edward Gardner, sounded more like Stravinsky than Vaughan Williams....
...Ian Hislop’s history of the conscientious objectors ( Not Forgotten , Monday Channel 4) went deep into once untouchable territory, beginning with the obscure monument to the “conshies” in London’s Tavistock...
...A pacifist, he was a conscientious objector during the war but later served as a US government surveyor on Christmas Island....
...Objectors fear the Tesco store would kill off local businesses. The writer J.B. Priestley would have been unimpressed by their arguments....
...The Honourable William Fraser of the Gordons met a runner returning from the front lines with news that: “a Boche officer comes up to us and says surrender”. “Well?” “We said, to Hell wi’ surrender”....
...General William C. Westmoreland went to his grave last week denying that the US lost the Vietnam war. Vietnam’s Communist regime is in similar denial about itself....
...It first arose in 1865, when General William Sherman, conqueror of Atlanta, issued Special Field Orders No. 15, which extended a gift of 40 acres to freed slaves....
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