Word: stantons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commanded the Army of the Potomac, and by June 1862 was only four miles from Richmond when a strong force led by General Robert E. Lee caused him to retreat from his ill-starred Peninsular Campaign. Bitter because he had not been given reinforcements, McClellan telegraphed Secretary of War Stanton: IF I SAVE THIS ARMY NOW, I TELL YOU PLAINLY THAT I OWE NO THANKS TO YOU OR TO ANY OTHER PERSON IN WASHINGTON. YOU HAVE DONE YOUR BEST TO SACRIFICE THIS ARMY. McClellan Was Soon openly antagonistic toward President Lincoln and his Administration and his criticisms became a major...
...this was complicated by Juan Perón's own unpredictable course. The same Strong Man who publicly protested that Argentina must keep its "third position" had, in the past five years, told U.S. Ambassadors George Messersmith, James Bruce and Stanton Griffis that Argentina would fight on the U.S. side in a third World War. He had repeated the sentiment last year to Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller. Afterwards, Miller had fought through a $125 million credit for Perón in Washington, insisting that no strings be attached. Last week Miller was back from another visit...
...last U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Mr. Stanton Griffis, got along fine with Peron, whom he considered charming. Mr. Griffis admitted that "there is a lack of personal liberty in Argentina," but this concerned him little. He said that his major job was "to become loyal friends" with the Perons by building up U.S.-Argentine trade; he felt that his work at such commercial diplomacy was often fouled by TIME'S reports (none of which he called untrue) on conditions in Peronland...
...impervious to Franco's corruption, to his refusals to put through any kind of democratic reform, to his campaign against the "freemasonry, Protestantism, and prostitution" being smuggled into Spain through Gibralter, their laissez-faire souls should rebel against his refusal to cooperate on strategic materials. Even new ambassador Stanton Griffls, who calls Franco "a perfect gentleman," should be feeling rather ashamed about his mission of "friendship" to Spain...
...mustachioed, gold-laced envoy had hurried from his former post in New Delhi: "Though I come from farthest away," he crowed, "I wanted to be first, and I made it." Hard on his heels trailed The Netherlands' Count Willem van Rechteren Limpurg. Then followed the U.S.'s Stanton Griffis, riding to his audience with Franco in the old horse-drawn coach used by Minister Washington Irving more than a century...