Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stalin and Saracoglu. Meanwhile, an endless stream of code cablegrams played ring around Europe between the Turkish Military Mission in London, Turkish President Ismet Inönü at Ankara and Turkish Foreign Minister Shokru Saracoglu who was now becoming a permanent fixture at Moscow, conferring every few days with Stalin and Molotov...
Bullitt (in Paris) : "The President and Secretary of State want immediately everything you can send them about the matter [bombing of Warsaw]. From your military attache and other members of your mission, understand? Categorical declarations, and categorical declarations by all members of the Embassy, as detailed as possible; and then, additionally, declarations by neutral diplomats. They want to have it as a basis, understand? You know what's going on in the United States...
...what the Allies have to say a Turkish mission headed by General Kiazim Orbay left for London, reputedly to demand that if Britain and France want Turkey to stand with them they must furnish her at once with large supplies of tanks, planes and artillery and must agree to support the Turkish currency-a clear case of Oriental blackmail...
...Mark Twain wanted to express the quintessence of complacency, he reached down into his grabbag of artful characterizations and pulled out one of his greatest: "The calm confidence of a Christian with four aces." Japanese statesmen wore just such a cocksure air last week. Their spiritual complacency (the sacred mission of creating a New Order) was reinforced with all the aces and most of the face cards in the Asiatic pack...
...congregation of Priests of the Mission was founded by St. Vincent de Paul, great & good charitarian, at the Priory of St. Lazare in Paris...