Word: missions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer of 1944, on a shuttle mission to Russia, Captain Richard E. Willsie's P-38 was so badly shot up that he was forced to land in a Rumanian pasture. Lieut. Richard T. Andrews, seeing Willsie go in, landed his P-38 in the same field, and after the damaged fighter had been set on fire took off again . . . with Willsie sitting on his lap. They made a safe landing in Russia...
Meanwhile, as Chiang's military situation worsened daily, Washington gave no sign that it would send additional military aid to China. Madame Chiang Kai-shek's mission to Washington had failed. In Nanking, this week, one of Chiang's secretaries mournfully said: "We hope Madame is home by Christmas; it is so cold in Washington...
...Dutch had promised an Indonesian federation, with sovereignty and equal partnership in a Dutch commonwealth, but they could not agree with the tough little republic on the necessary interim arrangements or on the final blueprint. Last month, in a final effort to break the knot, a mission from The Hague under Foreign Minister Derek Stikker journeyed to Batavia. The Dutch claimed that the republic was waging a disruptive campaign of kidnaping, murder and arson. The republicans claimed that The Netherlands was trying to set up "puppet states" in some areas of Java and Sumatra which the Dutch had seized from...
Dinnyes was accused of not showing "enough vigilance against two-faced elements." His Finance Minister, Miklos Nyardi, had gone on a mission to the West and "entered the service of foreign imperialists," i.e., decided not to return home...
...embassy in Caracas quickly set the matter straight. Colonel Adams had visited both the Ministry of National Defense and Miraflores Palace on the day of the coup, but his sole purpose was to get information about Lieut. Colonel Frank P. Bender, U.S. air attache, overdue on a search mission for a lost U.S. Army plane...