Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier was Mendès' old commanding officer, Colonel De Rancourt, now air attaché at the French embassy in London. "You once confined me to quarters for ten days," Mendès said, recognizing him. "It was 14 days," the colonel replied. "You proceeded on a mission without orders." A rotund, familiar figure with a cigar was also on hand at Biggin Hill. Sir Winston Churchill, 79, who had driven seven miles from his country house at Chartwell, addressed his visitor, with his usual disregard for any language but English, as "Monsoor Mends Fra-a-ance." Then...
...talk of a desire for a little peace and quiet, Chou En-lai proclaimed that Cornmunist China's next order of business is to invade Formosa. "It is imperative that the People's Republic of China liberate Taiwan," cried Chou. In the achievement of this "glorious historic mission," Red China will not tolerate interference from "United States aggressive circles. If they dare interfere . . . they must take upon themselves all the grave consequences...
...24th, which emphasised that modern armed forces could not be built up without heavy industries, and to reflect on the wisdom of meeting all Peking's demands for British heavy machinery. They will doubtless hear much of the claim, advanced a few weeks ago by the Chinese trade mission to Britain, that ?100 million worth of trade could be done between the two countries in the coming year if strategic controls were abolished. The impression left by Mr. Tsao in London last month was that Britain would have to accept remarkable quantities of preserved eggs, bristles and feathers...
...Mission of the Church to Those Outside Her Life," which will lay less emphasis than usual on conversion of "the heathen," instead pay more attention to what one churchman called the heathen at home-the unchurched and indifferent masses living in nominally Christian countries...
...become a familiar figure in international literary circles-an intellectual nomad to whom "all the world is home." But last week Author Lin was packing up his books and belongings to return to the Far East. He not only has an important new post to fill but a mission to perform. As the first chancellor of Singapore's new Nanyang (South Seas) University, he will be in a position to strike a blow at Red China's campaign for the minds of Asia's non-Communist students...