Word: protocols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most important call was at the Egyptian Palace: young King Farouk, waiving protocol, received his guest, still wearing the blue business suit, on the Moslem holy day. His message to King Farouk was doubtless like the one he hammered home everywhere: the Mideast must get on the Allied side of the fence and stay there because "the glory days of Nazi regime are ending; their high tide is reached, and shortly we will see it recede." Then Wendell Willkie went to the Egyptian battlefields, watched German bombers overhead, heard the explosion of German bombs, looked at burned-up tanks that...
Billy Mitchell's fate had shown airmen what they could expect if they sounded off out of turn. As soldiers they agreed with the justice of Billy Mitchell's punishment, since he had grievously broken military protocol. They kept their mouths shut, except among themselves, worked mightily with what they had to turn out their limited crop of good airplanes, good pilots, good battle doctrine...
...Strangers' Gallery. Observers believed that if Churchill had made the statement he would have aroused the House to more enthusiasm than the rather pedantic, high-voiced reading of the impeccable Eden. Said one political correspondent: "If it had been an Admiralty statement, the old man would have waived protocol and made it himself...
Next day Don Júpiter, who as "director-manager" fronts a mysterious film company called Argentina Images, presented himself at the Casa Rosada to film a luncheon for his friend Governor Moreno. Without protocol, exit Júpiter...
...Protocol terms gave Ecuador 30,000 of a disputed 117,000-square-mile area of the arid mountains and steaming jungleland in the upper watershed of the Amazon River. Ecuador was also given free navigation rights on the Amazon and its tributaries (for potential oil shipments), but grumbled that pressure to sign had been severe. Peru did not grumble. To non-grumbling Peru Franklin Roosevelt sent a message praising "friendly consultation and mutual adjustment." To grumbling Ecuador went praise for "the spirit of cooperation and cordial collaboration...