Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Production. For over a year the Churchill Government has faced a heavy barrage from the Left on the question of production. As a last resort Oliver Lyttelton was recalled from Cairo to replace Lord Beaverbrook, and last week he formed a Joint War Production Staff to "clamp together" the needs of the three fighting services...
...Stafford had paused in Cairo to talk with Britain's Middle Eastern command, whose task may depend greatly on his work. Indian developments seemed to favor that work. After committee meetings, the Indian National Congress party, which has demanded complete independence, appeared to be in a receptive mood. Congress' Mohandas Gandhi spoke with easy informality of Sir Stafford: "I once had the pleasure of meeting him. The one thing we had in common is that he is a food faddist [vegetarian...
...Great Britain's War Cabinet in the Middle East. It was the first time Britain had offered to take a Dominion statesman into the Home Government. Minister Casey was to replace Captain Oliver Lyttelton (Britain's new Minister of Production) in the vital liaison job in Cairo...
Married. Pamela Wavell, oldest of the three daughters of General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell; and Lieut. Francis Humphrys, son of Lieut. Colonel Sir Francis Humphrys, onetime British Ambassador to Iraq; in Cairo...
...first time since Italy declared war on the U.S. came a firsthand account last week of how recent months have affected Mussolini and the humble paesanos he exhorted to "live like lions." It came via Cairo. It tallied in most respects with a series of "Inside Italy" articles by Michael Chinigo, longtime I.N.S. correspondent in Rome, and with information smuggled out by secret societies. All accounts told of hunger in Italy, of disillusionment, of despair...