Word: cordiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time Charles de Gaulle was smiling, cordial, no longer unbending. His mission was obvious: to regain U.S. affection for France. He stepped out of the big, silvery Avro York plane jauntily, moved rapidly through the line of stiff-standing French officers to greet Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes. Then he walked to a microphone. The General's English was slow, but he had brushed up his vocabulary...
Relations between Russia's Colonel General Alexander V. Gorbatov and U.S. Major General Floyd L. Parks are, in General Parks's words, "more than cordial-we've become real friends." Gorbatov was inclined to be a little stiff at first. Parks, a Southerner, soon charmed him. Gorbatov took the first drink of his life at the first meeting of the Kommandantur. Parks explained that he, too, was a nondrinker, that his doctor allowed him only a little white wine. A few hours later a Russian soldier appeared at Parks's house with a case of Rhine...
...scrupulous fairness, and for never asking anyone to do anything that he wouldn't do himself. Once, when he was general superintendent, he ran a rotary snowplow for 120 hours, opened the main line for traffic. The railroad brotherhoods, with whom U.P.'s relations are so cordial that there has been no labor trouble since 1903, regard Jeffers as a hard, fair bargainer...
...Harry Truman replied that he would be glad to deny all the rumors-but no letter. That was not good enough for sensitive Henry Morgenthau. In that case, the President told him, his resignation would be accepted immediately. There was no outward bitterness; the exchange of letters was cordial...
...stipulations . . . cannot be considered . . . fulfilled until ... the Argentine people have received the opportunity to elect a government of their choice. Until this has been done it may be expected that relations between the United States and Argentina will never be cordial, however correct they...