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...Service Pilots a part of "Hap" Arnold's Army Air Forces. It would expand the whole WASP program to train and commission more women pilots. The bill would also give colonel's rank to handsome, energetic Jacqueline Cochran, now chief of the WASPs, and one of the ablest of U.S. airwomen...
Japan's first blow in mid-April fell on tough, little Tang En-po, one of Chung king's ablest generals. But Tang's tactical skill could not make up for the inadequate weapons of his men, for the lack of air cover, for the incredibly meager trans port facilities...
This is Mary Welsh, who covered the Battle of France for Lord Beaverbrook's London Express, got out .of Paris two jumps ahead of the Nazis, helped cover the Battle of Britain for TIME. Graebner has described her as "without doubt the ablest female journalist in London...
...Soup. Last week at Chung-king's foreign press conference, the Chinese Government, stung by the Perry incident and a scorching New York Times editorial, made reply. Spokesman was the ablest of China's three governmental mouthpieces-young Dr. P. H. Chang, who speaks for the cabinet. Dr. Chang blithely kissed off the controversy as a misunderstanding. A poor translation had made the regulations read as if the supervisors were "to guide and control thought and conduct"; actually the correct translation was "to guide the thoughts and control the actions of students abroad." As for the training...
...excuse the State Department's successive fumbles, which in themselves have fanned that hostility by making the U.S. alternately absurd and offensive in Argentine eyes. But, in Argentina and elsewhere, this current of national pride did complicate the U.S. problem, make it a tough one for the ablest diplomats to solve...