Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James Landis, Middle East Economic Operations Director, turned up in Cairo...
James M. Landis, new U.S. Economic Director for the Middle East, skittishly skirted these questions last week at his first Cairo press conference. Said he gravely: "U.S. policy is 'achievement of the objectives of the Atlantic Charter.'" Egyptian newsmen fidgeted. To them, the Four Freedoms already sounded as stale as "Making the World Safe for Democracy" did after Versailles. Egypt was safe, so to them the war was over. Egyptians are fighting the peace. They wanted more specific, realistic answers to the suspicions of Syrians, Iraqians, Persians, Egyptians, Palestinians, on U.S. postwar motives. Then Minister Landis let slip...
Last week in Cairo, King Peter and the rest of his Cabinet in Exile waited patiently. Over the radio the 20-year-old claimant to an overturned throne in Bel grade addressed his subjects, urged them to "obey Mihailovich and other national leaders of your resistance to the enemy and refrain from internal struggle." It was a long step for Peter to mention other leaders; he still could not bring himself to call the Partisans by name...
After he was ordered out of Italy, Calhoun did hitches for TIME in Lisbon, Ottawa, and Chicago, then joined our New York staff as one of our top writers in Foreign News. Early this August he took off for Cairo, and for the past two months he has been waiting in the Middle East to go into action with General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson's Ninth and Tenth British Armies...
Magic Carpet. In a four-motor Liberator-type transport, the junketing Senators flew to the British Isles, to Casablanca, to Marrakech, Cairo, Basra and Calcutta, to Chungking (where they met China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek), to Australia, Guadalcanal (three days), and homeward via New Caledonia, the Fiji Islands, Honolulu and San Francisco...