Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smart errand boy hears a lot, especially if he happens to be the son of a President. F.D.R.'s second son and self-styled errand runner ("I'm the Roosevelt who didn't go to Harvard") undoubtedly heard plenty: at the Atlantic Charter conference, at Casablanca, Cairo and Teheran. How well he remembers what he heard may be something else, as his mother tactfully suggests in her foreword to this book: "I am quite sure that many of the people who heard many of the conversations recorded herein, interpreted them differently, according to their own thoughts...
...also reported to have been in Athens and Cairo at various times with King George, notably when he was more or less "confined" in Egypt early in World War II. Later, she is rumored to have done some kind of war factory work in Britain...
...Korea, the U.S. crisply reaffirmed all its original pledges made to the Koreans at Cairo and Potsdam, and, by inference, blamed the Russians for the present chaos in that country. Said the State Department: U.S. troops will stay until Korea has democracy...
Dressed in Western clothes, with his reddish beard shaved off, and equipped with a false passport, the Mufti apparently left France last fortnight on a T.W.A. plane for Egypt. In Cairo he disappeared. Next day a U.P. dispatch from Damascus said that the Mufti was in Syria, at a meeting of the Arab League called to resist the Anglo-U.S. plan for transferring 100,000 European Jews to Palestine. But the U.P. later admitted that the Mufti's whereabouts were uncertain, and the Syrian Government denied that he had entered by air or through any frontier post...
...five hours, Commons hotly debated Britain's proposed withdrawal from Egypt and the hitch in the Cairo negotiations. Churchill insisted that British troops stay in Egypt to protect the Suez Canal. Replied Bevin: "It is not a very popular thing now in international affairs to maintain troops on other people's soil. It is becoming out of fashion...