Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more and more of you have signed up to share the expense, we have expanded our services again and again: adding the full wire service of the Associated Press - posting more than 200 of our own correspondents all over the world -opening our own editorial offices in London, Moscow, Cairo, Algiers, Stockholm, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Honolulu, New Delhi, Chungking, and nine U.S. cities...
Last week brought the 25th anniversary of the declaration of independence.* Korea was still a land of silent people. No one could say how few, if any, of the nation of 23,000,000 knew that China, the U.S. and Britain, at Cairo last November, had promised to restore their freedom "in due course." In Chungking, greying Kim Koo, head of a Korean provisional government, declared that Koreans want "full and immediate independence" after the war. But strategic Korea, after long years of bondage, seems more likely to become the ward of an international condominium until she has learned...
...Cairo, where the British outnumbered us in about the same ratio as we do them here, it was: "These . . . Limeys, they think they own the place!" Which is another way of saying that the major deterrent to friendly Anglo-American relations at present is merely too much of a damn good thing...
Against Mihailovich. What everyone, particularly Moscow, had long known about Yugoslavia, Winston Churchill now broadcast: The forces of Draja Mihailovich had "made accommodations with [Axis] troops. ... In Marshal Tito the Partisans have found an outstanding leader, glorious in the fight for freedom." Thus Churchill disowned the Royal Yugoslav-Cairo Government's support of General Mihailovich. But the Prime Minister did not disown that Government's titular head, 20-year-old King Peter II. Said Churchill: "We cannot disassociate ourselves in any way from [King Peter]." The implication held a hope: that Peter might yet break away from...
...Brazil for running guns to the revolutionists; in '95 shipwrecked off South Africa; in '95 severely wounded on Jameson's raid from Mafeking into the Transvaal; the next year sole survivor, again severely wounded, of a surveying expedition for Cecil Rhodes's Capetown-to-Cairo telegraph line. Lyon fought in the Spanish-American War, served as a sergeant major through the Philippine Insurrection. Home from the wars, he prospected in the Klondike, worked on the Panama Canal, in 1915 settled down as a Connecticut power official. At 61 the old campaigner learned...