Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME [Feb. 9] ... it was stated that I refused to allow Mr. Larry Allen, Associated Press Correspondent with the British Mediterranean Fleet, permission to ride on an American bomber in which I traveled from Cairo to the U.S. on the grounds that there was no room...
...interview with him sent out by the Associated Press. His reply to Mr. Bullitt's letter: "I got my first opportunity to talk to Bullitt direct in Accra, but I fail to see how he could have missed knowing that I tried to get aboard both at Cairo and Khartoum, since I appealed to [ex-Minister to Bulgaria George H.] Earle, also Bullitt's secretary, to use influence to have Bullitt take...
...value of these personal belongings, furniture, etc. is about double what I received as Minister for these two years. 3) My dog was in the baggage compartment, and there were two extra seats not used in the bomb rack for people from Africa to America. 4) The Legation in Cairo had arranged for me to travel by Clipper in real luxury, but I canceled it as I could save this $1,500 or so for the Government. As a result I was in a bomb rack for twelve hours at a stretch, unable to talk and unable to look...
...comparative quiet, a warning voice was heard from Cairo. Able War Correspondent Alan Moorhead cabled to the London Express six cogent reasons why the Axis counterattack had succeeded, why the previous British thrust had stalled. They were...
Involving a long and possibly hazardous voyage from New York to Cairo on small freighters which make secret passages, transportation to Egypt is paid entirely by the British government. All men joining the ambulance outfit, however, are expected to supply at least $300, for their own spending money and to cover the cost of uniforms...