Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outspoken an anti-New Dealer as any ex-officeholder. But Franklin Roosevelt tapped him early in World War II for a wide variety of ticklish diplomatic junkets. They have carried him at least three times across both the Atlantic and the Pacific, and into six continents-to Moscow, Canberra, Cairo, Kabul, Natal and points between and beyond. Franklin Roosevelt once confessed that only two men on earth understand how he and Pat manage to get along together: the other man is Pat himself...
...members. Their activities range from sports to classes in stenography, from providing board & room for city working girls to running summer vacation camps for youngsters. Currently the Y.W. is hard at work in war zones, with some 20 rest and recreation centers (including a houseboat on the Nile at Cairo) which provide servicewomen with such occasional luxuries as breakfast in bed, hairdressers, tearooms...
Last week the shooting spread to Cairo. Two civilians, not Egyptians, shot & killed Britain's resident minister in the Middle East, Lord Moyne...
...Cairo he found the five U.S. Senators (Mead, Brewster, Lodge, Russell, Chandler) who made a round-the-world inspection junket last year. "Why," moaned Coward, "when there are so many millions of delightful Americans . . . should such an uninspiring group of men be sent on an overseas mission? . . . Oh, my God, they were dull...
...definitely accounted for at week's end was Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. He was reported to have flown from Moscow to Cairo, but might be at Ankara, Athens, or in Yugoslavia...