Word: missions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day Li himself flew down to install members of the unofficial delegation. Heading the mission is 72-year-old Dr. W. W. Yen, former ambassador to Russia, who accepted the post only after his doctor declared him physically fit for his first airplane ride...
...present mission Griffin has shown signs of interest in a story concerning Harvard since he consulted University authorities about arranging interviews with faculty members and students. When he came to Boston early in January, Griffin declined to reveal the purpose of his trip...
...Blum's Socialist paper, Le Populaire. In 1941 he escaped from occupied France and joined Charles de Gaulle in London. The Free French sent him to wartime Washington where he was the right-hand man of famed Economic Planner Jean Monnet in the French Economic Mission, later headed the French Purchasing Commission. Although a Socialist, Marjolin does not believe in spreading socialism indiscriminately over Europe; he favors letting private enterprise alone where it works well, e.g., in Belgium...
While he wrestles with his problem, there comes a bid from Washington, to serve on a technical mission to "Alba," a fever-ridden province in a South American country. Harmon grabs at the chance. In Alba, he begins to find new resources within himself. He bucks the "business-as-usual" policies of the mission's chief, blimpish Colonel Burling; he finds an understanding friend in Ernestina Manriquez, neglected wife of a rich landowner. From her he regains the "sense of recklessness, the grandeur of being a man, being male." But it is from his new friend Vicente Hidalgo...
When Hidalgo is murdered, Harmon issues a statement placing responsibility on the local government, though he knows it will mean instant dismissal from the mission. He remembers Hidalgo's words: "In bullfighting, William, they have a marvelous phrase for describing the climax of the ceremony-that ultimate moment of reality when the sword strikes the bull. 'La hora de verdad-the hour of truth.' A man must not waste away into nothing, William; a man must find his hour of truth." Having faced his hour, Harmon now feels that he can return to his family and find...