Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most recent campaign as Middle East commander, the attack on the Aegean Islands of Cos, Samos and Leros had been a fiasco. Troops had been pushed within easy reach of German land-based air power; communications were so badly organized that landing parties had trouble contacting headquarters at Cairo 500 miles away; equipment was rusty and inadequate. Some wit rose to the occasion by dubbing Jumbo "The Wizard of Cos." Another commented that the Russians shoot generals who fail, the Americans find soft jobs for them, the British promote them...
This pronouncement indicated that Tito had definitely won Yugoslavia's long ballot of blood and was now on top in the struggle for authority among Yugoslavs. Die-hard royalist Serbs in Cairo, including young King Peter II, knew that Simovich was talking straight at them...
...Cairo last December President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Turkey's President Ismet Inönü reached what they called "closest unity." Since then, the Turks have seen that 1) they can not get all the military equipment they think they need; 2) Allied military action has not yet broken the German hold on southern Europe. The Turks are bound to feel that jumping into the war now is like jumping into an uncharted river...
...head of one of the world's great financial organizations. Chinese murmured that more was to follow: Harvard-educated T. V. seemed to be on a greased political chute, might even lose his position as Foreign Minister. Political observers recalled that among the Foreign Ministers at the Cairo Conference, T. V. was conspicuously absent...
...young (41) Senator Lodge this was a second appearance in uniform. His first was before the gates of Cairo, when General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck's Britons were falling back. Major Lodge accompanied the first U.S. tanks in Africa-but he was not in one of the three tanks which fought their first battle there. On his return to the U.S., he and other Congressmen went on inactive status. Lodge got himself re-elected to the Senate for another six years. After 18 months of "grave thought," he had decided that "given my age and military training...