Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watched the formal surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, received the first of the five pens with which General MacArthur signed the document. Then, for the supreme moment of his wonder-packed week, he returned to Baguio, to accept the surrender of all Japs in the Philippines from the now fangless "Tiger of Malaya," Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita...
Missouri-born Brigadier General Harry Vaughan, military aide to President Truman, is a large, uninhibited man, a veteran at draw poker. Genial and democratic to boot, Reserve Officer Vaughan is neither a finicky nor a formal dresser: in the White House he often does not bother to put on a blouse or cinch up his necktie...
After four days of cordiality and handshaking, and just before General de Gaulle took off for a brief visit to Hyde Park and New York, there came a joint formal statement from the White House. Its gist: the two leaders had found "a fundamental harmony between French and American aims," and had agreed on "even closer cooperation in the future...
...Ababa last week, the Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Department demanded sovereignty over the former Italian territory adjoining its frontier. That territory, Italian Somaliland, is now British-occupied- and Britain has its own ideas about the ownership of the strategic Red Sea littoral. The same day, the British Government made a formal presentation to Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah: a sleek new Rolls-Royce limousine. Territorial claims could be discussed later...
Almost all the teaching is done by 144 selected non-Nazis, supervised by Pfc. Francis Tourtillot, a former German teacher at the University of Wisconsin. Books are supplied by the Red Cross and inter national Y.M.C.A. Besides formal instruction and informal sports, the camp's re-education program includes election of jurors to the prisoners' own disciplinary court, a once-a-week walk outside the compound, and showings of Nazi atrocity films...