Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After four days of cordiality and handshaking, and just before General de Gaulle took off for a brief visit to Hyde Park and New York, there came a joint formal statement from the White House. Its gist: the two leaders had found "a fundamental harmony between French and American aims," and had agreed on "even closer cooperation in the future...
...temporary capital in Chungking the Generalissimo whirled through a week of high statesmanship. In a brief ceremony at the National Government building, he signed the United Nations Charter. When he put down his brush, he made his characteristic short, quick bow, murmured: "Hao hao, hao hao-very good, very good!" He looked deeply satisfied...
...April 27 the revolutionary army attacked Derna. While three warships gave support from the harbor, a central spearhead led by Eaton planted the U.S. flag on the city's walls. Yusuf's governor hid in a harem, and Hamet established himself in the royal palace. For one brief moment General Eaton tasted triumph: "The conquest of Tripoli was in sight and with it would come prestige for the U.S. throughout Barbary, the like of which no other nation enjoyed...
...Manhattan Engineer District" was the purposely deceptive name given the project. Its centers were full of G-men. Its couriers were Army officers, brief cases chained to their wrists. It rated highest priorities for men and materials. From dozens of universities and industrial plants physicists, chemists and mathematicians vanished into thin air; the Manhattan District had snatched them...
...American Airways, pioneer on the international airways, was in a mood for fighting last week. In Washington, it chucked an indignant brief onto the Civil Aeronautics Board desk. Its charge: gross Government favoritism in granting Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. and American Airlines, Inc. postwar transatlantic routes. The protest was polite, but by mentioning Plane-Builder Howard Hughes, it left the door ajar enough to drag in T.W.A.'s president, jowly, hard-flying Jack Frye, and his friend, Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt...