Word: 43rd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provided a clue to their attitude toward Indonesia. The Council wanted to dispatch felicitations to the Indonesians, the Dutch, and the U.N. Commission for Indonesia, whose conciliatory work had been at least in part responsible for the birth of the new nation. But the Russians cast their 42nd and 43rd veto in the Council to block the congratulatory messages. During the debate on the matter, the Ukrainian delegate boasted that Communist guerrillas in Indonesia had launched a new offensive against Soekarno's republic. For Indonesians, as Soekarno himself had put it: "Things are not yet all moonlight and roses...
...hard to find Baptists who agree on anything, except that the Devil ought to be trimmed down a little bit." So cracked a Baptist last week at the 43rd annual meeting of the Northern Baptist Convention in San Francisco. But the 2,727 delegates and 2,292 visitors who met for four days in the city's huge, dusty-looking Civic Auditorium surprised themselves by their harmony...
Georgios Papageorgiou of Zoumerka is a private in the Greek army, 9th division, 43rd brigade. He can hardly remember a time when there was peace in his country. He has fought the Italians and the Germans, now he fights the Communists. A veteran of two years' warfare against the Red guerrillas, he has seen action at Konitsa, in Epirus, in the Grammos mountains, in the Peloponnesus. He does not know what became of his family; like hundreds & thousands of other Greeks, they fled from Red terror. They may be in a refugee camp; they may be dead. Some...
...boys in the division's 152nd Field Artillery Battalion called their friend "Little Joe from Pozorrubio." Little Joe stuck with them through six months of combat. But when the 43rd moved on to occupation duty in Japan, José went sadly back to work in the rice paddies...
Later, José wrote to one of his old pals of the 43rd, ex-Sergeant F. Allen Shippee, who now manages an ice plant in East Providence, R.I. José said that he wanted to come to the States to study agriculture, and would sell his carabao to pay for it. Shippee put up bond to permit him entry into the U.S. as a nonquota student, and fixed up a room for him in the Shippee home. Last week, Little Joe, with $32 in his pocket, arrived in Providence. For his old friends in the 43rd, he had brought along...