Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Abdullah continued to receive the homage of Arab leaders. The Arab League Secretary General, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, arriving for a conference at Abdullah's palace, bowed low, kissed Abdullah's carefully manicured little hand, then placed it reverently against his forehead in the Arab sign of deference. There was more hand-kissing as Abdullah inspected the Iraq ist Brigade, which had just arrived to reinforce his Arab Legion. Said Abdullah: "I shall enter Palestine after May 15 ... even if the Arab League decides to accept armistice proposals...
...Arabs were thinking less of trying to conquer the Jewish enemy than of defending their own parts of Palestine. Both sides were willing, for the moment at least, to keep Jerusalem off the list of battlefields. British High Commissioner General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham won Arab and Jewish acceptance of a ceasefire order for the city. To back it up, the British moved in heavy tanks and guns...
There might still be a few more meetings; a report would have to be made in September to the 58-nation General Assembly. But there was not much more to be said...
...Council: this highest official level was sliced away when Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky walked out last March 20 (TIME, March 29). Until this week, however, they still met in the lower-echelon Kommandatura, charged with the day-to-day business of running the capital. Here, each fortnight, white-haired Soviet General Alexander Kotikov rose to read an hour-long prepared indictment of the Western powers, then comfortably settled his 215 pounds in his chair and looked blank and bland while U.S. Representative Colonel Frank Howley crisply replied. Then Kotikov would read another rehearsed document on a totally different subject...
Moody, young (46) General Hu Tsung-nan was fond of taking lonely walks. Suddenly he would stop, beat his chest in Tarzan fashion, and howl to the heavens. Ex plained Hu : "Thus do I free myself of internal and external pressures." Friends urged him to take a wife. General Hu, short, sturdy watchdog of China's north west, shook his head. "I have a job to do," he said...