Word: liaisons
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...stalled and it crashed. Among those killed: General Wladyslaw Sikorski, Premier of the Polish Government in Exile and commander of its armed forces; his daughter, Mrs. Sophia Lesniowska; General Tadeusz Klimecki, Chief of the Polish General Staff; Colonel Andrzej Marecki, military scientist; British Colonel Victor Alexander Cazalet, M.P., political liaison officer to Sikorski...
Died. Major Victor Alexander Cazalet, 46, Unionist M.P. from Chippenham since 1924, onetime British squash racquets champion, political liaison officer to Premier of the Polish Government in exile, General Wladyslaw Sikorski; in their bomber's crash at Gibraltar...
...Algiers included an unsavory lot: thousands of ex-Vichyites, many recently "escaped" from the homeland; royalists; big industrialists who had always feared the Republic more than the Nazis; antidemocrats like Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, the peanut-oil king, who helped install Giraud, then was dis missed from an important liaison post, is now making overtures to the De Gaullists. But the classic example was Marcel Peyrouton, the opportunist who as a Vichy minister signed Charles de Gaulle's death warrant and later was plucked from exile to become the Giraudist Governor General of Algeria...
...beat da rap." As the Marines expanded to war strength, Lou Diamond was the ideal liaison between crusty old-timers and impressionable recruits. He taught quick action by threats of .yardbird detail and the rough side of a corrugated tongue. His men swore by Lou, remembered the time he dared a colonel to court-martial him for filching extra food for his men. "I'll beat da rap," said he, "I did it for da boys...
...paused to fight very few engagements with the enemy but instead pushed out toward Cap Bon in many divergent columns. In principle they infiltrated the enemy much as the Japs infiltrated the British in Malaya and Burma. German and Italian units were badly split and their communications were cut. Liaison was impossible. Some corps and division headquarters surrendered before their soldiers had the order to cease fire...