Word: confidantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Louis ("Uncle Louis") Esselen, 65, tall, soft-spoken confidant and lifelong friend of the Union of South Africa's Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts, longtime secretary of Smuts's United Political Party, commissioner of the Union's state-owned railroads; from a heart attack; in Cape...
Voice of Stalin. A devout Communist, 50-year-old Zhukov has been Stalin's political confidant, now to be entrusted with Berlin and the delicate business of speaking for Stalin in whatever Allied councils might govern a beaten Germany.
Still in China, still the hero of the people and the confidant of the Generalissimo was Major General Claire Chennault with his small but effective air force; still in China were thousands of U.S. technicians. U.S. aid to China would continue. But there would be a difference, which reporters in...
The division in the country was reflected in the government. In De Gaulle's Cabinet were two Communists, grey, wiry Air Commissioner Charles Tillon, handsome Health Commissioner François Billoux. But the Cabinet also contained two right-wing extremists, the young, athletic Commissioner for Prisoners and Deportees, Henri...
Died. Yoshimichi Hara, 76, close confidant of Japan's Emperor, president of Japan's Privy Council since 1938 ; in Japan. On the morning of his death, Hara was sent twelve bottles of wine by Hirohito-the customary gift of the throne to important public servants who are beyond...