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Senator Paul H. Douglas, Democrat of Illinois. "General MacArthur has been a brave and skillful soldier and has done an excellent job in Japan ... It is nevertheless true in our democracy 1) that military commanders should ultimately be subordinate to the civil authorities and 2) that a general should not go over the head of the Commander in Chief in an appeal to the people or an opposition political party...
HARRY F. PORTER Glastonbury, Conn. ¶In a brave try for clarity, TIME simplified these admired examples of the American spirit (and other churches) right off the chart...
Last month, after a council of the elders of the tribe had finally voted to cooperate with Orlando, Komatzi and 40 Kalapalo braves called at Orlando's headquarters deep in the jungle some 850 miles northwest of Rio. Taking Orlando and an interpreter, they marched eastward for five hours to the bank of the Kuluene River. There all halted in absolute silence. After another session with his elders, Komatzi sent a brave for a canoe. The chief stepped gravely toward Orlando, pointed to a mark cut in the trunk of a nearby tree. "This is how tall Ingueleze...
Last week the nation did what it could to honor a brave man. Mrs. Nellie Red Cloud, a silent, 53-year-old Winnebago woman who lives in a converted automobile trailer at Friendship, was asked to come to Washington to receive the Medal of Honor (the eighth to be awarded in the Korean war) on behalf...
...appropriations, but they did their pruning with embroidery scissors. Just before it sped away on its recess, the House managed to snip-snip .09% off $2.9 billion funds for Treasury and Post Office. No work at all had been done on the mammoth armed services bill; after all the brave talk about higher income and corporate taxes, there was no chance of a tax bill before late summer or fall. A good deal of the legislative structure of the industrial mobilization program will expire in June; nothing has been done about writing new measures...