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...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...
...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...
...night last week, sergeants' whistles shrilled in Fort Dix. By midnight, trucks and guns were rumbling past the flat Jersey fields; by noon the 44th Division (New York and New Jersey National Guard) was well south of Washington...
...furloughs had just been summarily postponed. The 44th had got the rush act for a warlike job. It was disposed in the famed cockpit of the Civil War, in Virginia, where Lee, Jackson and Grant had sparred and pounced. The 44th's job: to take Fredericksburg, defended by a regular outfit whose size the 44th did not know...
...Sunday, the 44th rested, prowled the Virginia towns, roamed through Fredericksburg's National Military Cemetery, where 15,000 Civil War soldiers (12,000 marked "unknown") lie under prim headstones. But there was no day of rest for the officer responsible for the maneuver: Major General Lesley James McNair, Chief of Staff of the Army's General Headquarters. He headed back to Washington, got busy again in his office, overlooking the campus-like lawn of the Army War College on the Potomac...