Word: battledress
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From a makeshift command post in the Manitoba legislature building last week, a composed, greying soldier in the red-tabbed battledress of a brigadier defended besieged Winnipeg against the city's worst flood in a century. His orders flowed by field telephone and radio to 50,000 men sweating on 15 miles of soggy, sandbagged dikes along the surging Red River of the North. Occasionally he hopped into a helicopter for a hurried look at a new danger point. By week's end, as hope mounted that the main crisis had been met with only two lives lost...
Near Tel-Aviv, Jews in battledress attacked an army camp with hand grenades, killed a British officer and a Negro sentry. The British had no time to call out their club-&-shield-toting police pickets (see cut). With a bellow of rage, African native soldiers burst out after the attackers. Storming into the nearby Jewish village of Holon, they sprayed it with bullets, hit anything that moved. Before their officers could round up the berserk blacks, an old man had been riddled with bullets, a boy ripped with bayonets...
...concert this week in Berlin, Berlin's famed 65-year-old Philharmonic Orchestra was led by a U.S. war correspondent in battledress. Besides being a war correspondent, the guest conductor was a Negro, born in British Guiana. The 2,000 Berliners and the 500 Allied soldiers in the audience found it quite an experience. They applauded warmly when the conductor led the orchestra through Weber's familiar Oberon and Tchaikovsky's Pathétique. They broke into cheers, and called him back five times, when he gave them Berlin's first hearing of fellow-Negro William...
...conference began. Churchill was speaking when the ELAS men turned up: Communist Party Secretary George Siantos, EAM Secretary-General Demetrios Partsalides, also a Communist, and ELAS General Emmanuel Mandakis, hero of Crete, who is suspected by the British of being a Communist. All wore British battledress, all were relieved of their pistols at the doors. Then the door was locked, the key handed to the ELAS...