Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes past midnight, Palestine time, President Truman announced: "The U.S. Government recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new state of Israel." Delegates to the U.N. General Assembly meeting at Flushing Meadow heard the news in astonishment (see INTERNATIONAL), quickly wound up their 28 days of futile talk about "the Palestine problem...
...will try to hold Abdullah to this more modest plan. Said a British official in Amman last week: "The Legion will be very prudent. We want no wild adventures." Britain's subsidy of $8,000,000 a year still continues, and the Legion's British commander, Major General John Bagot Glubb ("Glubb Pasha"), was still in Amman last week as its "administrative" head...
Under U.N. supervision last week, U.S.-occupied South Korea had its first free general election in its 4,000-year history. Communist threats of disruptive violence did not materialize on the scale expected; only 35 people were killed in election disorders. Nor did the Communist boycott significantly diminish the total vote; 92% of South Korea's eight million registered voters cast ballots. But in one forecast, pre-election dopesters were proved right. Tenacious, septuagenarian Syngman Rhee was confirmed as Korea's No. 1 political leader and its probable new chief of state...
...opposition was working mightily to close the lead of sleek, smiling Auténtico Candidate Carlos Prio Socarrás, President Grau's own choice to be his successor. Ricardo Núñez' first bid for public office was a strong one. The son of the general who ran up the flag of Cuban independence over Havana's Morro Castle in 1902, he was one of the island's most solid citizens. Pennsylvania-born, he trained at Philadelphia's Lankenau Hospital and later became Dictator Machado's personal surgeon. Before long...
...Sheldon, director of medicine in the Royal Hospital, made a survey of 477 old people in the community, reported that old men are either in very bad health or very good health for their age, and fairly constant about it, while aging women showed a steady reduction in general health...