Word: edd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clash between Davis and Sherwood started in Manhattan, spread to London, and focused in Washington. The men who actually guide OWI Overseas-newsman Joseph Barnes, economist James Warburg, editorial chief Edd Johnson-operate OWI's vertiginous New York office. Their job: to tell the truth, but not the whole truth about the U.S. to its friends and enemies, and to neutrals abroad. (News of U.S. strikes, for example, is not sent.) Critics have accused the Manhattan psychological warriors of being leftish, of being faction-ridden...
...hills where Solomon got his tall cedars, French officers and helmeted Senegalese soldiers summarily arrested Lebanon's President Bechara El Khoury, Premier Riad Solh and his cabinet ministers. By the day's end, Parliament had been dissolved, a puppet regime led by Francophile ex-President Emile Eddé had been installed, newspapers banned, martial law and curfew imposed, troops posted in squares. Having ordered these measures, French Delegate General Jean Helleu leaned back, ready for the worst...