Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East is not altogether effete, however: the Colorado Springs boosters had reckoned without the citizens of Sackets Harbor. Growled Mayor Carl M. Jackson: "General Pike's been buried here for more than a century, and we mean to keep him here...
...easy to exaggerate what such a force could accomplish. And the Legion could not move far without a green light from the British, on whom it has depended for money, arms and leadership. One of Abdullah's visitors last week was Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, mild-mannered secretary general of the Arab League. He made no rash claims. Unshaven and weary, with his tarboosh pushed far back on his head, he admitted disconsolately that the Arabs were "the most inefficient and undisciplined people in the world." They could not at present, he thought, defeat the Jews in pitched battles...
Meanwhile, at Lake Success, the U.N. General Assembly ended its second week of discussion of what to do. There were prospects of peace in at least one small part of Palestine: Jewish Prime Minister-to-be David Ben-Gurion, who had been visiting Jewish militiamen during Passover, cabled his representatives at U.N. to accept a truce for Jerusalem's Old City. But most of the U.N. debate was still concerned with procedural issues. Between meetings, the delegates of the 58 nations sent their assistants to the newsstand in the U.N. cafeteria to buy the latest editions of the newspapers...
...Spaak was elected president of U.N.'s General Assembly, where the world for the first time noticed the big Belgian's political skill, his moving oratory, his practical internationalism. He hulked over the nations' quarrelsome confusion with patience, fortitude and humor (rumor had it that he read mystery stories during the duller speeches...
They also had a remarkably small Communist Party (about 100,000). Complains Communist Secretary General Jean Terfve: "Belgians are a peculiar people. They always grumble, but fundamentally they are satisfied." Spaak puts it differently. "Prosperity," he says, "is the death of Communism...