Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a bleak stone cottage in Epirus came news that shook the Greek exile Government apart. After 20 days of wary talk in the shadow of the snowy Pindus Range, Greeks in Greece clasped hands, agreed to drop their fratricide, devote themselves henceforth to killing Germans. Greeks in Cairo lost their nerve, began last week a game of tag which left them all demeaned...
Sophocles, 49-year-old second son of the late, great Eleutherios Venizelos, is a veteran of Grecian wars with Bulgaria and Turkey, a onetime bridge champion, a declared opponent of the Greek monarchy, who nevertheless joined the Greek Cabinet in Cairo last year...
...protests to the British Foreign Office, since last Oct. 1, concerning premature London reports of : 1) Secretary Hull's impending arrival in Moscow; 2) the Italian declaration of war against Germany; 3) signing of the third Lend-Lease agreement with Russia; 4) the Roosevelt-Churchill-Chiang conference at Cairo. A fifth had already been mentioned in the Times dispatch from London: a report that a U.S. plan for postwar Germany had been submitted to the European Advisory Commission...
...Action. Stuart Emeny, 40, distinguished London News Chronicle war correspondent; in the Burma plane crash which killed Major General Orde Charles Wingate. Courageous Emeny first became known for his coverage in 1935-36 of the Ethiopian War. In 1942 another correspondent disquieted Indian press officials with a cable from Cairo: ENEMY REACHES CAIRO INDIAWARDING TOMORROW...
...took medicine that added acid to his stomach. So long as he took his medicines, he kept going. But on trips he often forgot. After the London and Moscow Conferences in 1941, he had to be rushed to the Naval Hospital in Bethesda. He returned from Teheran and Cairo worn down and sniffling, went to Florida to rest, wound up last week in Rochester...