Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argument." Other British journalists took it more calmly. Said the Manchester Guardian: "Even the greatest partisans of Churchill and Montgomery must grant General Eisenhower's fair-mindedness and equable temper ... It is an honest, sincere book...
Friends of President Truman learned that he had read Crusade in Europe. The President confirmed General Ike's report of their conversation in which he had offered to help Ike get anything he wanted, including the presidency in 1948. But, said Harry Truman, Eisenhower forgot to complete the story. The President had also told him that he would not mind running for the vice-presidency, as Ike's mate...
...Unions, and the irate police decided to pick him up and toss him in jail, diplomatic immunity or no. UNESCO's secretariat promptly protested, and while Mustafa languished in stir, the understanding Lebanese government promised that in future, before a UNESCO delegate was clapped in prison, the director general would be consulted "whenever possible...
Impossible of Solution. Meanwhile, for the delegates, there was still the problem of how to enlighten the world. In a 115-page report, Britain's neon-bright Biologist Julian Huxley told the delegates what had been done in this direction during his second year as director general. His report mentioned a "pilot project" in Nyasaland for the education of natives in literacy, health, agriculture and commu nity living. There had been a survey started on re-education in Germany, and the launching of an "Inquiry into the Tensions Affecting International Understanding," to find out why people...
...Pitch of A. Both will be badly needed to dispel the fog in Beirut. At its first meeting in Paris two years ago, U.S. Delegation Chairman William Benton had likened the general program of UNESCO to "a pork barrel floating on a cloud." In two years the program had not changed appreciably. By last weekend more than 60 separate resolutions had been dumped into the laps of conference subcommittees. Many, like Austria's pet project for an international conference in Vienna to standardize the A pitch in the musical scale, bore all the earmarks...