Word: geoffrey
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...occupation hotspots the generals had a monopoly. In Japan it was General Douglas MacArthur; in Austria, the Fifth Army's old boss, General Mark Clark (soon to be replaced by Lieut. General Geoffrey Keyes); in Germany, Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay, now also commander of all U.S. troops in Europe. As contact man with the field, General Marshall had another Army ranker as Assistant Secretary of State for occupied areas: Major General John H. Hilldring, onetime Civil Affairs Division chief in the War Department...
Others elected to new posts of the executive council were: Frederick D. Houghteling '50 as vice president; Warren J. Green '46 as Secretary; Don S. Willner '47 as Chairman of the Political Action Committee; and Geoffrey W. White 48 as Chairman of the Harvard Affairs Committee...
...same time General Mark W. Clark, who has carried out U.S. policy in Austria in fact as well as title, got a new assistant, Lieut. General Geoffrey Keyes. After the Austrian treaty discussions in Moscow next March, where Clark will act as deputy for Secretary of State Byrnes, Keyes will succeed Clark in Vienna...
This week the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune had its second birthday. A little over two years ago, when Geoffrey Parsons Jr. arrived in Paris to edit it, the paper had ceased to exist. The fabled Old Paris Herald, eccentric foster child of the New York Herald Tribune, had died when Paris fell four years before. Parsons didn't even try to restore its old ways. His orders were to make it better. Last week the European Herald Tribune looked even more like its clean-columned New York parent than young Geoff Parsons looks like...
...Britain's Nonconformist churches enter into "full communion" as the first step toward a church united. For more than a quarter century thereafter the project gathered dust in ecclesiastical archives. But this week, in a sermon at the University of Cambridge, the Most Rev. and Right Honorable Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, forcibly reminded British Christians that the idea was not dead. Excerpts...