Word: missions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seek nothing from Russia but good will and fair play. If, however, there is to be a war of nerves, let us make sure that our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts . . . Let us then move forward together in discharge of our mission and our duty, fearing God-and nothing else...
David Bruce, 50, hale and pink-cheeked, directed ECA's mission to France. Onetime son-in-law (now divorced) of Andrew Mellon, a prudent man of varied experience (law, A.E.F., consular service, banking, corporate affairs.* Red Cross, OSS, Virginia legislature, U.S. Department of Commerce), Bruce had become bound up, to the exclusion of almost everything else in his thinking and feeling, with the problems, virtues and defects of France...
...Representatives of Britain, Belgium and Luxembourg-Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Premier Paul-Henri Spaak and Foreign Minister Joseph Bech-were heading west on the Queen Mary to sign the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington. France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman was about to leave on the same mission. They would be here to endorse an affirmative act on which the U.S. people, except for a noisy minority, were no longer divided -an act of determination which was the best answer to the fulminations of the "Conference for World Peace...
Acheson told what the U.S. was doing in Persia. A military mission with about 50 officers and enlisted men advises the Persians on problems of military administration. The mission's presence has been requested by Persia and is covered by an agreement registered with the U.N. Also on hand is a U.S. police mission, composed of twelve officers and men, who went to Persia in 1942 under Colonel Norman Schwarzkopf, former director...
...often make mistakes and I welcome correction. But I would not welcome it chalked on the toilet wall." Other Red delegates: General Lin Piao, conqueror of Manchuria; Lin Po-chu, chairman of the Communist Shensi-Kansu-Ningsia border government; Li Weihan, Communist party whip and negotiator at Marshall mission conferences two years...