Word: escorts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirty-five hundred miles away, in the Indian Ocean Seychelles Islands, Greek Archbishop Makarios, whom Harding had exiled, reappeared in the news. Though the archbishop himself is kept under "light escort," his secretary, out for a stroll, evidently dropped a letter in a mailbox addressed to the editor of a Kenya newspaper. Unopened and uncensored, the letter reached Nairobi, where the East African Standard promptly printed its complaint: Makarios and his three clerical companions were being treated like criminals for no greater offense than "expression of our love of freedom." In London a red-faced Colonial Office spokesman admitted that...
...Friends of Franco, and overenthusiastically defended Munich ("Hitler could absorb Czechoslovakia and Britain could remain secure"). When Churchill replaced Chamberlain and obviously had little relish for Lennox-Boyd's views, he joined the coastal navy, but continued to show up in the House of Commons every time his escort vessel touched a Channel port. He caught the eye of the late Oliver Stanley, an imperialist Tory who was rethinking Britain's colonial position. Mellowed and increased in wisdom by this friendship, he won Stanley's support, became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Aircraft Production...
...shots taken by Photographer Laurence Lowry with the close support of the Navy. The picture project was supervised by Contributing Editor Jones (Lieut.. U.S.N.R.), who served throughout World War II as a gunnery officer in the Caribbean and Pacific areas, was mustered out as skipper of the Destroyer Escort Crouter. Contributing Editor Clark (Pfc., U.S.M.C.), who wrote the cover story, was a Japanese-language interpreter in the Far East during World...
After the Tuesday afternoon Naval Commissioning Ceremany there will be a moonlight cruise for seniors and dates, as well as families and friends. Drinks will be available aboard the Sea Belle, and a motorcycle escort will lead the way there...
...visitors had not made off with the heart of the British common man-something Khrushchev had badly wanted to take home as another trophy from his diplomatic safaris. Through most of the visit, B. & K. remained remote and formidable figures in big black cars behind a 21-motorcycle escort (a sight hitherto unknown in Britain), but they soon sensed in the public's cool reserve that they were not being officiously sealed off from the kind of hysterical triumph they had scored in India...