Word: 44th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just what kind of soldiers are they in the 44th? [TIME, July 28] Do they think they're the only ones that are grumbling? All of us are, but we aren't expressing our opinions to the public. My outfit, in particular, is located on a sandspit way out in Boston Harbor, appropriately called by an inspecting general, "one of the worst posts in the U.S. Army." Boats to the mainland are bad and athletic activities are at a minimum. Entertainment consists of old movies three times a week and a WPA show, which though appreciated is corny...
...Army outfit that is celebrated neither for its morale nor for its soldierly qualities is the 44th Division (New York and New Jersey National Guard) stationed at Fort Dix, N.J. It has been the focus of many stories of unruly action, such as mass grousing over Army pay, breaking windows to show displeasure...
Last week the 44th gave regular soldiers acute pain once again. From Companies I and L of its 174th Infantry went a telegram to Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler, protesting extension of the National Guard's year of service. At week's end Major General Clifford Powell announced that this breach of military discipline had been forgiven. Next day the 44th passed through Fredericksburg, Va. From the trucks showered penciled notes-more protest. Sample text: "One year's enough. Send this to your newspaper. . . . Why not take a vote among the National Guard...
What was wrong with the 44th was a question the U.S. Army would have to answer. Interesting in this connection last week was a letter written to a friend by one of the 624,000 draftees in the U.S. Army (not stationed...
...ingenious explanation to the democracies included the fact that there could be no such thing as a war between Japan and China because there was no such thing as China. "It is a conglomeration of disunited nations and hostile chieftains." The 43 nations voted to condemn Japan; Siam, the 44th, abstained. Mr. Matsuoka gathered his papers, stalked out, his suite scuttling after him. His arguments had failed to convince, but Japan got away with the Manchuria grab and the note he set at Geneva was echoed later by Italy over Ethiopia and by Germany over the Rhineland...