Word: liaisons
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...army, was evacuated from Dunkirk. Charles de Gaulle rescued him from sentry duty outside the French embassy in London, where French sentries had to stand without shelter throughout the worst of the blitz. We got to know him as De Gaulle's in telligent, well-informed, fair-minded liaison man with the English language press in Algiers and Paris...
...last minute the Senate had added two minor amendments. Otherwise the committee's recommendations (TIME, April 22) rode through untouched. A five-man, full-time civilian commission would have complete and sweeping powers over every phase of atomic research, production, engineering and application. A military liaison committee, a nine-man advisory board of civilians appointed by the President, and a bi-partisan congressional committee would act as a check and conscience on the operations of the Atomic Commission. The whole bill was geared to mesh with any future international control adopted...
Foreign officers visit the Americana rarely, and then usually "to find out what you people are up to." Said a French liaison officer: "Why make this such a dis play? We fraternize too, but we would never do it so openly...
...Sorry. In Manila, U.S. Army Prisoner Enrique Jikiti Ymamura, head of the Japanese Army's public assistance and liaison office during the occupation, hopefully filed a petition for Filipino citizenship...
...Watchdogs. Three committees would keep an eye on the commission: 1) a military liaison committee, which could take its squawks, if any, to the Secretaries of War and Navy; 2) nine prominent civilians appointed by the President, whose function would be to advise, who would be paid $50 a day when they worked; 3) a committee of nine Senators and nine Representatives appointed by the presiding officers of those two bodies, whose job would be to make continuing studies and prepare any necessary legislation. But by the very nature of things, the commission of five would be supreme...