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After we had signed our papers, we were channeled through one more line to hand them in, and then we were done. But not quite. Solidly athwart the narrow passageway which ran past the jury box to freedom stood a great buxom solidset woman from the American Legion Auxiliary. She pinned me with an American flag made of heavy paper and corrugated so that it waved in my buttonhole. Then she shook my hand heartily and welcomed me to America with a smile...
...minutes later were diving between the mist-shrouded peaks surrounding the Nghia Lo basin to plaster the Viet Minh troops with bombs and napalm. Over the town of Nghia Lo, C-47s and three-motored Junkers transports dropped French and Foreign Legion paratroopers, who quickly set up new defenses athwart the mountain passes. At week's end the severely mauled Viet Minh columns pulled back.The Thais breathed easier. The big attack of the Viet Minh on the main French lines is still to come. The weather is now right...
...Athwart the rooftop of the world...
...went down with the tug. The other five crewmen managed to launch the small lifeboat. It, too, soon capsized. The only man who could not swim, Gerald Anderson, 17, managed to crawl athwart the upturned lifeboat. One by one the others lost their grip and went down. An hour and a half later the lifeboat washed ashore and Anderson was picked...
Polite Insubordination. One of the most powerful advocates of peace now with the Reds was broad-shouldered, bony-faced General Pai Chung-hsi, formerly China's Defense Minister and now Commander in Central China. He commands four Nationalist armies in the Hankow area, crucial for its position athwart the flow of food (from the Hunan rice bowl) and of munitions (from Szechwan arsenals...