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...time for General Clark to confer with General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery of Britain's dashing Eighth Army. Below the Sorrentine heights, perhaps in General Clark's office-truck headquarters, the American and Briton...
...London since 1941 as Franklin Roosevelt's "defense expediter," Harriman became a Lend-Lease liaison officer between the U.S. and Great Britain, did a bang-up job, journeyed to Russia with Winston Churchill to confer with Joseph Stalin. He is said to have made a great impression on the Soviet leader...
...British and Greek staff officers have traveled by secret routes to confer with Greek guerrilla and patriot leaders under the very noses of Axis troops...
...when British industry responds to Eric Johnston's invitation to confer with U.S. businessmen, either or both of those factors might upset his competitive applecart...
...such occasions high U.S. or British officials come to the bank's defense and explain that its business, under McKittrick, is so conducted that none of its operations could possibly confer an advantage on any belligerent nation at the expense of another. These operations consist chiefly of: 1) collecting interest; 2) semi-automatic renewal of maturing investments (no new ones are made); 3) extending limited credits to central banks; 4) handling payments under the international postal agreement and prewar treaties; 5) acting as banker for the International Red Cross organizations operating from Switzerland. Last year the bank...