Word: liaisoning
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Skinned Alive. Chicago-born Novelist Mary Borden (Mary of Nazareth, etc.) knew him well. Her husband, Major General Sir Edward L. Spears, went to France in 1940 as Winston Churchill's special liaison officer with Premier Reynaud. When he returned to England with De Gaulle after the fall of France, "almost no one in France or Great Britain knew [De Gaulle's] name; nor did the French in England receive him kindly...
...wanted to: 1) persuade a major producer to make the Life of Christ in Technicolor; 2) start producing a picture based on his own novel, The Hand that Drove the Nails (Hession's considered opinion: "It knocks The Robe into a cocked hat"); 3) set up a "liaison office" between church and cinema to "advise" on and promote Protestant films; 4) campaign for Hollywood's struggling little Cathedral Films, which is now making Bible shorts for church & school...
...last, after weeks of debate and conferences, the nation got a bill to set up domestic control of atomic power. Between the House and Senate there had been honest differences of opinion. A majority of the Senate wanted an all-civilian atomic commission, with the military held to a liaison role. The House passed a version putting one military representative on the commission. The Senators, led by Arthur Vandenberg, held to their principles and in conference the House backed down...
Under the bill as it has been passed, many of the features which the scientists considered objectionable have been maintained including a military liaison board, extremely strict security regulations, and, with presidential approval, the right of the military to continue to produce atomic weapons...
...approached for Allied invasion, Britain and the U.S. looked in vain to Mihailovich for a unified resistance. By 1944, wrote British former liaison officer Fitzroy MacLean last week, Tito "was carrying out a widespread and effective resistance to the Germans, and Mihailovich, however good his intentions, was not. In those days the military effectiveness of our allies was a far more important consideration than their political complexion...