Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleventh message to Congress on the State of the Union, President Roosevelt gave assurance that "there were no secret treaties or political or financial commitments" made at Cairo and Teheran, declared that a basic essential for future peace is "a decent standard of living for all individual men and women and children in all nations" and proposed for the U.S. an "economic bill of rights" which showed that the New Deal is far from dead in the heart of its great sponsor. But the big news of his message-read to Congress by clerks while he nursed his vanishing...
...Cairo last week for a conference on Pan-Arab problems came Premier Riad Solh of Lebanon. For the first time, he and his party represented an independent nation. The crisis over France's League of Nations mandate (TIME, Nov. 29) was settled. Syria and Lebanon had won their point: "all powers and capacities hitherto exercised by the French" had passed to their native governments...
...advance man for a new official U.S. line, based on an understanding with Britain and China. This suspicion was strengthened by the New Year's Day message of China's Chiang Kaishek. Said the Generalissimo, who is the man to see about the Japanese future: at Cairo he and Messrs. Roosevelt & Churchill had agreed...
...nations, China has fought the longest. Savage Japanese air and land attacks, against soldiers and civilians alike, might well have made the Chinese vengeful. But in Chungking last week, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek spoke reasonably of the Japanese, repeating to the world what he had told President Roosevelt at Cairo...
Peril in August. "I remember well in August of last year when I came to join the Eighth Army. ... I was told the Eighth was in imminent danger of being attacked by Rommel and that at all costs it was to be preserved and withdrawn down the Alexandria-Cairo road. Plans were actually being worked out to move Army Headquarters back to Cairo. . . The Eighth required somebody to say to it : 'If we are attacked we will fight where we stand - we will fight hard!' And once that had been said there was no further trouble...