Word: mission
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practice when Haganah asked him to help build an efficient Jewish army. Marcus consented. As chief planner he won the confidence of Palestine Jews by suggesting "we ought . . ." instead of "you must . . ." In April, he returned briefly to the U.S. on what he regarded as an ironic mission: to receive from the hand of British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel a decoration as Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for his work in World War II. Then he went back to Palestine...
...painted on the wings and body. The wings also bore, in bold, black letters, the words "United Nations" in English and French. The plane's principal passenger was 53-year-old Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, president of the Swedish Red Cross and U.N. mediator for Palestine. His mission was to win Jewish and Arab acceptance of a cease-fire agreement...
...Cheshire grin hanging over the whole scene was Joseph Stalin's. Russia sent a diplomatic mission to Israel (the first to the new state). Some observers feared that, in a pinch, Israeli extremists might ask for Russian aid, invite a chunk of the Red Army into the Middle East. It would probably not come to that. But by week's end, U.S. and British diplomats could not be sure that they had healed the U.S.-British rift...
...Litvinoff-Roosevelt Agreement, under which the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. began diplomatic relations in 1933, the Russians promised to permit facilities for religious worship by members of the U.S. diplomatic mission. Last month the U.S. State Department called it the only stipulation among a half dozen that the Kremlin had fulfilled...
...south, to arrange for the voting in Ontario's June 7 provincial election. This was the first time since 1939 that Fort Albany's 36 eligible citizens had had a chance to vote. "Who are the candidates?" asked Father Jules Leguerrier, head of the Roman Catholic Mission...