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Said Stars and Stripes: "The aristocracy-peasantry relationship characteristic of our armed forces has a counterpart nowhere else in American life." To the argument that the system is needed for battlefield discipline, Stars and Stripes retorted: "Such privileges and preferences actually destroy respect for rank, undermine morale and efficiency...
...delegates of 51 nations gathered last week for the first UNO General Assembly. They met on a great battlefield of the war-London. That battle, as much as Stalingrad or Midway, had been a turning point in the war. Though the delegates inevitably brought lesser interests along, they gathered also with a sense of dedication. Around the globe, the living shared...
Neurotics, playing their own warped perspectives against battlefield dangers, often make better-than-adequate soldiers. A few of history's notables-Ivan the Terrible, a manic depressive; Julius Caesar, an epileptic; Alexander the Great, sometimes called the "divine lunatic"; and Peter the Great, who killed his own men in fits of temper-were good soldiers in spite of-or perhaps because of-their mental ills. The Army Medical Corps' Major William Needles has decided that nervous handicaps may act as psychological crutches...
...Mark Clark's Packard, and in this conspicuous vehicle rode recklessly up to the front lines. When he could ride no farther he got out and walked, erect, though mortar shells were bursting all around. More than once, Patton had said that he wanted to die on the battlefield. Man in Armor. A cavalryman by training and by temperament, California-born George Patton was the medieval man on horseback-in mechanized armor. Even before his country was at war, he wanted to joust with Nazi Erwin Rommel-each contestant in a tank. "The two armies could watch," said...
...more diplomatic crockery and let in more light. Congressional committees vied with each other to get on record "the names, the numbers and the places" where, he said, "we have supported ideologies that are in conflict with the principles for which we asked our people to die on the battlefield...