Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes last week announced at a press conference that he had asked nine nations for advice on Japan. He had invited them to appoint delegates to a Far Eastern Advisory Commission which will convene in Washington on Oct. 23. The nine: Britain, China, Russia...
The permanent Commission headquarters would be Washington, but it might move temporarily to Tokyo.
As the U.S. delegate, Jimmy Byrnes appointed Major General Frank McCoy, 70, U.S.A. (retired), who in his 41 years of active duty in many countries was sometimes referred to as "the Army's ablest diplomat." McCoy was on the Lytton Commission which tried to do something about the Japs...
Smack on the Chops. The Russians had proposed an Allied control council-with emphasis on control. The invitations announced last week were in effect a smack right on the Kremlin's chops. The Far Eastern Advisory Commission will not even advise, much less control, Douglas Mac Arthur. Its U.S...
Unlike the Americans he had condemned, stocky, double-chinned General Anton Dostler, 54, got a hearing. Before a U.S. military commission convened in Rome's Palace of Justice, the General said Ja, he had ordered the O.S.S. men shot. They wore no insignia, had turned their field jackets inside...