Word: conference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then Britain, perhaps thinking to outflank her unruly daughters, asked the U.S. to confer separately with her. The U.S. regretted she was unable to lunch today-it being election year...
...squirming little Japanese parliamentarian had brooded ever since the Cairo Conference; Germany and Japan should confer, he thought, and draft their joint war-peace plans. Last week in the Diet he popped the question to Premier General Hideki Tojo (see p. 28). Replied Tojo: such a conference would be "devoid of benefit"; Axis relations are "clear, united and warm...
...high spirits, Franklin Roosevelt boarded the big C-54 Douglas transport at Cairo. He: 1) stopped off for 48 hours at Carthage to confer with General Dwight D. Eisenhower; 2) landed at Malta to present a "tribute to this island and to all the people. . . ."; 3) appeared on a parade ground in Sicily to look over U.S. troops...
...Foreign Opinion. "There seem to be two impressions. One is an expectation of gifts and favors from "the U.S. far beyond our capacity to confer. The other is a fear of the expansion of our foreign trade and of our worldwide aviation. I was again impressed with the dangers of overstatement and of making impossible promises. I submit that a clear, frank statement of national aims, based on national interest and guided by justice, would accomplish more good for the world and cause less hatred and disillusionment later...
...time for General Clark to confer with General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery of Britain's dashing Eighth Army. Below the Sorrentine heights, perhaps in General Clark's office-truck headquarters, the American and Briton...