Word: commissioner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The five U.S. generals of the trial commission filed to their places. Major General R. B. Reynolds immediately began to read aloud. He turned a page, another, two more. Yamashita licked his lips, blinked, moved uneasily. Finally Reynolds paused. "The accused," he directed, "will take his position before the commission...
Then General Reynolds read the verdict: "The commission finds you guilty as charged and sentences you to death by hanging."
"My Dear Admiral." The Navy also had a form letter. It let "My dear Admiral" down with a gentler bump. Sent last month to all of the 369 flag officers still on active duty, the Navy's letter simply asked (for guidance in future planning) if the admiral wanted...
¶ UNO was at a critical point. "If the Russians are not brought into the atomic commission, we might as well kiss UNO goodbye," was another Washington view.
Iranian protests to London and Washington evoked diplomatic notes to Moscow as strongly worded as Teheran could wish. But words had no great weight last week in the wooded hills and fertile valleys of Azerbaijan. The Teheran Government temporized by appointing a commission made up largely of former premiers to...