Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This postwar program, of course, hasn't been settled on at all-except in generalities. As he had said about the meetings in Teheran and in Cairo, we are still in the generality stage, not in the detail stage, because we are still talking only about principles...
...President distrusts the press, his Christmas Eve broadcast offered no evidence that he trusts the people more. The generalities of his speech were bare-boned in contrast with the detailed reports, confided privately by the President and other Cairo-Teheran conferees, which were flooding Washington and the nation...
...hospital bed in Cairo last week Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Dedier of the Partisans gave some old friends among the correspondents later news of his wife. Major Olga Dedier of the Medical Corps had been hit in the left shoulder by a bomb fragment during an engagement on Bosnia's Green Mountain last June. Marshal Tito was wounded that day, too, and the Germans almost surrounded and annihilated four of his best divisions. Vladimir saw Olga fall and ran to pull her into a ditch, out of reach of the Stukas...
Last week the New York Times, with a front-page lead and two pages inside, recognized the Partisans of Yugoslavia (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942, et seq.). In Cairo, where Correspondent C. L. Sulzberger filed the epic dispatch, once-hostile British censors passed a flood of encomiums to the Partisans, to their commander, Marshal Josip Broz ("Tito"), and to a party of Partisan officers who had come to Egypt. One booster even spread the report that Marshal Broz's favorite books are War & Peace and Pickwick Papers...
...result: widespread recognition in the world's press that the Partisans are doing the fighting in Yugoslavia (estimated strength: 236,000 ill-equipped fighters, many of them women in 26 divisions). Cairo had almost nothing to say about Serb General Draja Mihailovich, who was once the hero of Yugoslavia and the favorite of British officialdom...