All 5 Uses of
convention
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
- The 1929 Geneva Convention, which Japan had signed but never ratified, permitted detaining powers to use POWs for labor, with restrictions.
p. 234.5convention = an international agreement
- Virtually nothing about Japan's use of POWs was in keeping with the Geneva Convention.
p. 234.7 *
- The only aspect of the Geneva Convention that the Japanese sometimes respected was the prohibition on forcing officers to work.
p. 234.9
- Though this violated the Geneva Convention's prohibition on forcing officers to labor, Fitzgerald now knew what life in camp with the Bird was like.
p. 280.7
- I knew nothing about the Geneva Convention.
p. 393.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(convention as in: teacher's convention) a large conference or meeting
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(2)
(convention as in: conventional behavior) something regarded as normal or typical
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(3)
(convention as in: The Geneva Convention) a written international agreement