Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain (with China agreeing)--600 bombers, 400 fighters, 200 miscellaneous--total 1,200 planes; 8 to 12 divisions, 2 battleships, 4 carriers, 6 cruisers, 24 24 destroyers, 48 escort vessels, 24 minesweepers, 12 submarines...
France--775 bombers, 300 fighters, 200 reconnaissance planes--total 1275 planes; 16 divisions (3 armored, 3 airborne, 10 motorized or mountain); 3 battleships, 6 carriers, 9 cruisers, 18 to 24 destroyers, 30 escort vessels, 30 minesweepers, 12 submarines...
...Westminster's central lobby one day last week, M.P.s looked anxiously at each other. Why was he wasting time in London? But Ernie had merely dropped into the House for a quick lunch. That afternoon, his twin-engined Dakota set him down at Le Bourget. Behind a motorcycle escort with whistles blowing, he and a carful of mild, bespectacled Foreign Office experts drove to the British Embassy on the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. For three hours Bevin and British Ambassador Duff-Cooper sat in low armchairs overlooking the Embassy gardens, comparing notes. Then Premier Paul Ramadier...
According to the rules laid down by their hostess, the gentlemen would have to bid in cold cash (which would go to a charity) for the ladies they wished to escort during the impending quest. Some of the ladies objected; after a democratic vote, the majority went along with the auction plan. So Master-of-Ceremonies Baron Stanley of Alderley (he's terribly good at this sort of thing) mounted a chair in the sitting room. Cried he: "Now, who wants Loelia?" (the recently divorced Duchess of Westminster). Bidding was sluggish, and the ex-Duchess finally went for seven...
...Ottawan, noting all the excitement, suggested that the city should make a real show of it. He proposed that the plans for a motorcycle escort be abandoned, that the President be conducted wherever he went by Royal Canadian Mounties on horseback. Everyone thought it was an admirable idea. Mountie bosses said: "We'd like nothing better, but we haven't got the horses...