Word: mideast
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...trip to Russia and China* as a dual representative of Franklin Roosevelt and America's loyal opposition. His wardrobe was a tourist's sun helmet and a rumpled, dark blue business suit with a torn pocket. Said the voice from the Midwest to the people of the Mideast: "I've come for a definite purpose. As a member of the party in opposition to the President, I want to say that there is no division in America on the question of both winning the war and establishing a just peace...
...installations, spoke to U.S. soldiers with amiable profanity: "I just want to say I'm damned glad to see you. God bless you and give 'em hell." He regretted he could not give U.S. correspondents the latest baseball news (see p. 50). When he rebuked the strict Mideast censorship a reporter cried, "Thanks...
...most important call was at the Egyptian Palace: young King Farouk, waiving protocol, received his guest, still wearing the blue business suit, on the Moslem holy day. His message to King Farouk was doubtless like the one he hammered home everywhere: the Mideast must get on the Allied side of the fence and stay there because "the glory days of Nazi regime are ending; their high tide is reached, and shortly we will see it recede." Then Wendell Willkie went to the Egyptian battlefields, watched German bombers overhead, heard the explosion of German bombs, looked at burned-up tanks that...