Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Randolph Paul had finished, the Senate committee piled insult on reproof. It asked him to supply a Treasury proposal for a sales tax-one kind of tax which he has always opposed. As if he had known the worst in advance, Paul fished in his brief case and brought out a sales-tax proposal readymade...
...third of Sir Henry's command; like Persia, it is an occupied, but theoretically independent, nation under a regency and seven-year-old King Feisal II. The British have more enemies than friends among the 4,500,000 Iraqi; it took British bombs and troops to suppress a brief, pro-Nazi regime in Iraq last year. In Iraq and in adjoining central Persia is the bulk of Sir Henry's Tenth Army, poised to turn northward if the Germans come down from the Caucasus, west if they approach from the Mediterranean and Egypt...
During their brief stay here, the chaplains, all of whom have been ordained ministers for at least three years, have received training, which, when added to an already adequate theological knowledge, will prepare them for Army life. This is accomplished by grounding them in the customs and practices of military affairs...
Franklin Roosevelt had let his press conference believe that Willkie was, in effect, going on a Presidential mission (see above}. In his brief case Wendell Willkie will carry letters from Franklin Roosevelt to various officials including Joseph Stalin and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. But no one who knew the big lawyer thought he was going only as a Presidential errand boy. Willkie wants to see for himself. So he is going to China, which necessarily means a stop in India, the hottest spot of all. And the U.S. could be assured that Willkie would report to the people as well...
...spot he made a brief newsreel speech for Russian home consumption: "We are full of determination to continue to fight hand in hand . . . like comrades and brothers, until the last remnants of the Hitlerite regime are smashed and only remain as a memory to the world and as a warning to future time." Then he held up his ringers in the V salute...