Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thus became the first U.S. hero's widow of World War II to run for political office. Her husband, Lieut. Colonel John Payne, son of a University of Texas professor, was in the first contingent of U.S. flyers to reach the Mediterranean. He was killed a year ago. Cairo's big army airport is named for him. Mrs. Payne, with a four-year-old daughter to support, has already begun studying law. Last week no male Texan appeared ungallant or injudicious enough to contest her candidacy...
Tremor in Cairo. A pro-Partisan source in Cairo estimated Tito's nominal strength at 236,000 (not all of whom are armed or fighting at any one time). His success, or even his continued survival, was bound to shake the already shaky Yugoslav Government in Exile, further endanger the position of young King Peter in Cairo...
...squirming little Japanese parliamentarian had brooded ever since the Cairo Conference; Germany and Japan should confer, he thought, and draft their joint war-peace plans. Last week in the Diet he popped the question to Premier General Hideki Tojo (see p. 28). Replied Tojo: such a conference would be "devoid of benefit"; Axis relations are "clear, united and warm...
...British captain in Cairo ripped open a cablegram from England, goggled in mute horror at the message: "Son born." Frantic inquiries at the cable office disclosed that Form Message 185 had been substituted for No. 85 ("Receiving letters occasionally"). The error made a difference to the captain: he had not seen his wife in two years...
First Blood. Whatever Pravda meant with its "rumor from Cairo," the consequences of publication and later broadcast were swift and frightening. The British Government presented its stern denial directly to the Soviet Government. The British press fired harsh words at Russia for the first time since Hitler turned east: lie, insult, slander. Nazi propaganda set to work to prove a fatal rift in the fabric of agreement supposedly woven at Teheran, raise again the specter of a Red Europe. Ordinary Russians, taught to believe their press implicitly, now wondered whether Britain was about to betray them. In the U.S. many...