Word: mission
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stilwell again & again refers to himself as a "deck hand." He liked to drop the more important and troublesome aspects of his mission and turn to the jobs he could do well: troop training and tactical command. He believed that the Chinese soldier could be made into a first-class fighting man, and he proved it with the units he trained at Ramgarh in India. Crawling through the mud of the North Burma offensive, Stilwell looked like the hero he was. Chennault says it all when he calls Stilwell "one of the best divisional commanders the United States ever produced...
Amid nervous rumors of an impending Russian invasion of their neighbor, Norway, the Finns sent a fateful mission to Moscow last week. Its purpose: "discussion" of the military pact Stalin wants to conclude with Finland...
...envoys were preparing for departure, orders came from Moscow to pack full evening dress and decorations. That created a crisis: only the Communist Minister of the Interior Yrjö Leino had thought of taking frakkipuku (tails) on a mission that would probably mean Finland's doom. When the delegates finally climbed into a chocolate-brown sleeper at Helsinki station, a small man in the crowd cried: "It's just like 1939!" Part of the crowd started to sing the Finnish national anthem; Communists countered with the Internationale. But the patriots had the last word. With conviction, they sang...
...misunderstanding." From the state's Catholic hierarchy came a statement: "The authorities of the Church in New Mexico have in no manner whatsoever entertained the muchly haunted and often misunderstood so-called union of church and state. It was only through a high sense of duty of her mission to promote the welfare of human society that the Church permitted itself to accept the office of teacher in the public schools. The Church desires only that justice be done and good will preserved...
...West Pointer Lord, who had worked for the New Deal (Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project) long before he worked for Eisenhower in the E.T.O. service of supply. Perón, told what Lord had said, sent for him. Soon he was head of the President's "North American Technical Mission" and was advising on the whole five-year plan...