Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armed services can dip into a reservoir of trained men. Last week the Army and Navy underwent their biggest command shifts without audible clashing of gears. Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King finally resigned as Chief of Naval Operations-the job he had taken in December 1941, with the crack: "When they get into trouble they always send for the sons of bitches." Now his filial job was done. His successor: mild, earnest Chester Nimitz...
...Arnold drew $4,000 a year more salary (by flight pay) than his boss, Chief of Staff Marshall. Three flying generals, with four stars, drew as much as or more than Five-Star Marshall, whose only bonus was an occasional morsel of overseas pay (at 10%). Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, rated a naval aviator, until V-J day added 10% "sea pay" to his base pay by living aboard the yacht Dauntless in Anacostia's mud, but he spurned the chance to collect 50% more for occasional flying. Most other elderly generals, admirals, colonels and four-stripe captains...
Clement Attlee had not attained his objective-the British-American Big Two which Winston Churchill and Ernest Bevin suggested last fortnight. But Britain's Socialist Prime Minister might yet fulfill the aim of his 19th-Century predecessor, Canning, who "called in the New World to redress the balance...
Majority or Minority. To anxious Arabs and Jews this development held important corollaries which Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin candidly underlined in London. Said he: "We never undertook to establish a Jewish state [in Palestine], but we did undertake to establish a Jewish home, and that we must fulfill." Bevin had taken his stand on a literal interpretation of the 1917 Balfour Declaration ("The establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people . . ."). Said an Arab spokesman in Cairo: "We are happy, but we can't afford to show...
...should fortify in every way our special and friendly connections with the United States." Bevin on Russia. Ernest Bevin had none of Churchill's solid polish; he was sometimes almost incoherent. But his meaning was as plain as a bulldog's face: "We will do nothing or allow any of our agents and diplomats to do anything to stir up hatred or to provoke or create a situation detrimental to Russia in the eastern countries. ... I am not a criminal if I want friendship with neighbors bordering on the British frontier. What am I doing wrong...