Word: liaisoning
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...rock-bound traditions, followed an isolationist course -although he advocated military preparedness. But with U.S. entry into World War II, he immediately volunteered for military service (the first Senator to see combat since the Civil War). After action with an armored force detachment in North Africa and as a liaison officer with French forces in Europe, Lieut. Colonel...
Diverted Attention. When Blair's appointment as P.R.O. ended in April, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan asked the U.S. embassy to assign Blair to the palace as a liaison officer "indefinitely." The matter came before Premier Ibrahim for routine approval. Instead, he declared it "would not be in Moroccan interest" to accredit him. It was Ibrahim's last official action...
...Singapore and back. Aly Khan slew quantities of lions, tigers and water buffalo, but always on foot and never from the safety of a tree platform. In World War II, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion; after France fell he joined the British forces and served as a liaison officer with the U.S. Sixth Army group, winning the French Legion of Honor, the Croix de guerre with palms, the U.S. Bronze Star, and a citation for bravery under fire...
...China around 1918 to teach, and to advise Chiang Kai-shek from time to time on economic matters. Always a maverick, he was arrested by the Nationalists during World War II as one of the Chiang government's most vehement Kuomintang critics. Ma later acknowledged that Communist Liaison Officer Chou En-lai "did everything in his power to save me." When Ma finally fled to Hong Kong shortly before Chiang's fall in 1949, it was Chou who sent a telegram inviting him to join the new Communist regime in Peking...
...movement is under way to "sound out" Masters as to the possibility of effecting a closer liaison between the United Ministry and the Houses, Rev. Ronald Maitland, secretary of the nine-member group, confirmed recently...