Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians would note their arrival. If they were wise, the Russians would also note the ease with which this air armada was accommodated at British fields and fitted into British air operations. The R.A.F. and the U.S.A.F. are, in fact, essentially one air force. Their war-born union is the forerunner of an Atlantic system of military security...
...fact that all over Germany men were acutely aware of liberty and of its connection with the U.S.-British air lift was the real answer to last week's Russian note. The Kremlin said flatly that they were using the blockade to pry the Western powers out of Berlin...
...those risks. The month of truce had given Israel time to organize its half-formed army more thoroughly. Fighting with their backs to the sea, the Jews were telling each other last week: "Our secret weapon is ein brera" [no alternative]. Some Arab statements were tempered with a new note of caution. "Of course we're confident," said the Arab League Secretary General, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha. "The trouble is that some people expect spectacular results right away, but it isn't that kind of a fight. It is a guerrilla war where there are no front lines...
...Walter Thurston talked long and seriously with General Harry H. Johnson, new chief of the U.S. section of the anti-aftosa commission-out of the corner of his mouth. Afterwards Thurston announced that he had ordered a full investigation. Later he handed to Foreign Minister Jaime Torres Bodet a note deploring the comments of Mexican newspapers...
...rebellious garrison-but before a drop of blood was shed-he and seven of his officers beat it across the border to Bolivia. Before going, he sent the change back to the bank-95,000 of the 100,000 soles he had borrowed-along with his personal note for the 5,000 soles which the revolution had cost...