Word: caseyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among other things had taught him to speak with an English accent. With them, on this and a second boat, were some of the staff officers who were to accompany General MacArthur to Australia. In a hidden inlet on Bataan, behind the U.S. lines, Major General Hugh Casey of the Engineers led the rest of the departing staff aboard two other boats...
...went on in a jerkwater election for justice of the peace took on empire dimensions last week. The hagglers were two Prime Ministers, Tory Winston Churchill and Laborite John Curtin. The man in the middle, a thoroughly miserable chopping block for a personal quarrel, was popular, efficient Richard Gardiner Casey, Australian Minister to the U.S. He got a new job, but the story of how he got it was so confused by personalities that it overshadowed a significant shift in world politics...
...Australia. With the Japanese massing for invasion, the Australians were desperate. If tough, blunt talk was needed, burly Herbert Vere Evatt, Minister for External Affairs, was the man to make it. Curtin dispatched him to Washington to plead Australia's case on the brief prepared by Casey...
...that point Winston Churchill, looking around for new administrative talent, cabled Casey an offer to become Minister of State for 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...
...signal honor for Casey. Britons believed the appointment would please Australia...