Word: alward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herete, her etc [farewell]," waved black-clothed peasants when Lieut. General James Alward Van Fleet last week made his goodbye tour of army commands in loannina, Koizani and Salonika. Greeks consider upright, sturdy Van Fleet, who for 2% years has been the head of the Joint U.S. Military Advisory and Planning Group in Greece, the symbol of America and eleftheria (freedom). He had helped the Greeks to win what he once called "a "first-class war against international Communism...
...Joint Chiefs recommended the dispatch of a small military mission, possibly no more than 20 officers, along the line of Lieut. General James Alward Van Fleet's mission to Greece. Some time early in the year the Navy would probably dispatch an aircraft carrier into Western Pacific waters. Whether this would be enough to repel the expected all-out assault by the Communists next spring was up to the Nationalists themselves. What was more important, the U.S. was finally drawing a line in Asia, along which it would say to the spreading Communists: this far and no further...