Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...September 1944, a U.S. Army colonel walked into Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey's temporary headquarters in Tulsa, Okla. and told James Hagerty, Dewey's press secretary, that he had to see the Republican candidate on an urgent matter. His mission was so urgent that he would not even tell who had sent him, although he agreed to write a name on a piece of paper and place it in a sealed envelope for Dewey's perusal. When Dewey ripped open the envelope, he read the name of General George Catlett Marshall, Army Chief of Staff...
...understandable why the conclusion-jumpers were so active. In the first angry days after Nasser's seizure of the Suez, Sir Anthony had talked tough. Last week, after a month and a half of inconclusive international consultations, culminating in the abortive Menzies mission to Cairo. Eden had softened. Now some of his fellow Tories demanded that he make good on his threats. On the other hand, the Labor Party, which represents roughly half the British population, was sharply opposed to the use of force against Egypt, pressed him to submit the case...
Gentle Him. When Nasser agreed to listen to the Menzies mission, both President Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles praised him for making a "contribution." When Nasser protested at Ike's reference to the canal as "internationalized by the Treaty of 1888," the President replied in his most conciliatory tones that he was not challenging Egypt's nationalization of the canal company. Dulles, talking to reporters, pointedly omitted using the 18-nation plan's term "international operation" of Suez, which the Egyptians have said they would never accept. By thinking of the problem not in "these great slogans...
Vichy is the place where Frenchmen take the waters by day, and by night listen to speeches designed to soothe their pride as exponents of the glory of France and its civilizing mission. Many are colonists from North Africa, and last week they packed the Hall of Spectacles, confident of hearing a soothing speech from Marshal Alphonse Juin...
...orders-and other countries are already scrambling for them. The British are trying hard to get the Germans to buy Centurion tanks instead of U.S. M-475. The Turks and Italians are competing for ammunition orders. But the biggest purchases will be in the U.S. Last week a mission headed by Dr. Fritz von Twardowski returned from a two-week shopping mission in the U.S. with tentative agreements to buy a whopping $1.4 billion worth of U.S. equipment in the next three years. The expectation is that Germany will spend $500 million in the next year for U.S. aircraft, tanks...