Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clear the Lobbies." Added Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden: "What we need now is a working base and not a beleaguered garrison . . . We have to adapt our minds more and more to the conception that countries, wherever they are, do not like to have foreign troops on their soil . . . More and more we shall have to base ourselves upon our own strategic reserve here and our ability to fly it to whatever quarter it is needed...
...already infiltrated the French positions. The Communists have six divisions within 25 miles of Hanoi, and the French are moving stocks of arms and ammunition to the sea. There were reports that France had asked the U.S. and Britain whether they could provide enough shipping to evacuate the Delta garrison...
Mecklin's bid to visit the besieged garrison was flatly rejected. He was forced to cover the news by constant vigilance at French army headquarters in the Citadelle, by haunting the lobby of the Metropole Hotel, by quizzing legionnaires at the Taverne Royale sidewalk cafe...
...Guatemalans have no spunk!" gibed Señora Arbenz. Four months later, by way of answer, Arbenz and 13 others shot down the commander of Guatemala City's Guardia de Honor fort, won over the garrison and began shelling the capital's other two forts. A lucky hit on a powder magazine won the day spectacularly for Arbenz & friends. He and Colonel Francisco Javier Arana got a democratic constitution written and ran off a free election. It was won handily by Juan José Arévalo, a Guatemalan intellectual just back from exile in Argentina...
...Oppenheimer was represented (without fee) by the Manhattan firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and by Herbert Marks, onetime general counsel for the AEC. Famed Constitutional Lawyer John W. Davis, fresh from his defeat in the school segregation cases, joined in writing an appeal brief to the AEC, which has final jurisdiction in the case...