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...Regimental Combat Team-all Nisei except for a sprinkling of officers-was home from the wars. On the rain-soaked Ellipse adjoining the White House, the wiry little soldiers, their crisp khaki crumpling to a soggy brown, stood rigidly at attention while President Truman fixed the Presidential Unit Citation banner to the regimental colors...
...first column under the new banner, Frank Owen complained about the postwar "degeneration of behavior" in Great Britain. Wrote...
...British officers, held them as hostages for two Irgun gunmen who had been sentenced to death. Gangs raided central railway shops in Haifa; nine Jews were killed. The Haviva Reik, carrying 450 illegal immigrants (see cut), was nabbed by British patrol ships and brought into Haifa. She flew a banner proclaiming: "Keep the gate open; we are not the last...
Next day the ambassador rode through the fashionable Calle Florida with his staff in three open horse-drawn coaches, to present his credentials to retiring President Edelmiro Farrell. As he strode into the Casa Rosada a band tooted the Star-Spangled Banner. At the President's annual dinner on the eve of Argentina's Independence Day, Messersmith had a chance to meet Perón and start talking. He expected the talks to continue, frankly said they would be without publicity...
There, under a rust-colored banner bearing the legend "Trust in God and Work," the President received his sixth honorary degree, and extemporaneously admonished the nation: "Work, work, work! . . . Let me tell you a secret. Leadership isn't worth very much unless there are a few workers and followers. That is true on the farm . . . the coal mines . . . the railroads . . . the automobile factories . . . the mills. Get in line...