Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high spirits, Franklin Roosevelt boarded the big C-54 Douglas transport at Cairo. He: 1) stopped off for 48 hours at Carthage to confer with General Dwight D. Eisenhower; 2) landed at Malta to present a "tribute to this island and to all the people. . . ."; 3) appeared on a parade ground in Sicily to look over U.S. troops...
...earnest of what would happen to other lands retaken from Japan according to the Cairo plan; at least some of them would be returned without question to their former imperial owners...
...news stories of the year-the meeting of Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek and Roosevelt at Cairo-Reuters had scooped the pants off the U.S. press. The result almost reached the proportions of an inter-Allied incident...
...Hush. Newsmen of the democratic nations, already chafing under censorship and official fumbling of news, had run into more of the same at Cairo. They were barred from news sources by barbed wire, got only prissy chit-chat in place of solid news. But with these restrictions they had no great quarrel. They knew that the safety of the conferees might hang on discreet silence...
Even while reporters were gathering at the White House (and presumably, too, in London's Ministry of Information), a Reuters dispatch, datelined "Lisbon," went out by radio to the world. It announced that the Cairo meeting had been held, that the conference with Stalin was about to begin. By the time Washington correspondents were sputtering angry explanations to their managing editors, Berlin had picked the Reuters dispatch, was industriously ladling out counterpropaganda...