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...Discourteous. What sparked the Brazil-Soviet break was a rude affront to touchy national honor. Last fortnight Moscow's Izvestia said, in a generally churlish editorial on Brazil, that President Eurico Caspar Dutra was "surprisingly colorless even for a country where the generals are made, not on the battlefield, but on coffee plantations." The Brazilian Army fumed. A Foreign Office demand for an apology went unanswered. Last week the Brazilian Ambassador in Moscow was instructed to tell the Kremlin that 2½ years of edgy fraternity (but no trade) were all over...
...panorama of West Punjab seems even worse. In hitherto peaceful districts like Montgomery and Lyallpur there is not one town which has not been a battlefield. There is no bazaar which has not been burned out. Streams of refugees can be seen approaching all bridges, and over some roads they form virtual convoys miles long. On a ten-mile stretch of road leading to the big bridge over the Sutlej River into Pakistan, there must have been 100,000 people, most of them walking beside bullock carts piled high with their sole possessions...
...Hawley implies, was one of the worst-botched jobs in the annals of Indian warfare. The General split his small force (600 men of the 7th Cavalry) into three parts, failed to reconnoiter the terrain, advanced to attack in broad daylight, was surprised and cut to pieces on a battlefield of narrow gullies where his cavalry was helpless. Many of Custer's annihilated group of 225 men never fired a shot...
...General Hodge has said: 'The job we are doing in Korea is more important than the job done on any battlefield...
...like a general who knows that a small hill can become the key to a whole battlefield, Bob Young went right on buying. By last week, he had taken his hill, and said so. He announced that he had bought another 147,000 shares for about $2,690,000. Now, said Bob Young: "I hold enough stock to control the New York Central...