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Among the Allied leaders, Chamberlain bears the brunt of the author's j'accuse. Mosley does not disagree with the political opponent who judged the Prime Minister only qualified to serve as "lord mayor of Birmingham in a bad year." In the witty image of Diplomat-Author Harold Nicolson, Chamberlain may have looked like a curate entering a pub for the first time, but he was sneaky enough, says Mosley, to trick Anthony Eden into resigning as Foreign Minister and, as late as the summer of 1939, to make fumbling secret overtures to the Germans without informing...
After so many costly failures to gain Ap Bia's summit, some U.S. soldiers were dispirited. "There were lots of people in Bravo company [which had borne the brunt of the casualties] who were going to refuse to go up again," one soldier said. "There'd been low morale, but never before so low-because we felt it was all so senseless." Two other battalions from the 101st and a battalion from the Vietnamese 1st Division were brought up as reinforcements. On May 18, two battalions-all of their men loaded down with 40 magazines of rifle ammunition...
Hanoi's handling of its casualties is an especially intriguing point. Since the 1968 Tet offensive, the North Vietnamese have borne the brunt of the fighting in the South; during that time, they have suffered an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 battle deaths. Yet the Hanoi regime does not inform parents and wives of the fate of their dead sons and husbands. Possibly Hanoi's silence on the subject indicates that the government fears popular reaction to the big losses. On the other hand, the regime's behavior may simply indicate that it does not have...
...outdone on a politically ripe issue, Senators and Representatives promised congressional investigations of campus disorders. The predominantly white Students for a Democratic Society, which has spearheaded many of the campus upheavals, bore the brunt of the Senate attack. Colorado Senator Gordon Allott accused the S.D.S. of a "national conspiracy" to destroy the "peace and dignity of the academic communities." At the Republican Governors conference in Lexington, Ky., House Minority Leader Gerald Ford raised the threat of economic penalties for universities that did not keep order. "If the institutions are not used for the prime purpose of giving higher education...
...month. Even at those wages, most U.S. crews of the C-97s that reached Africa in January are already refusing to fly any more and are returning home. The Europeans, mostly veteran pilots too old or to flaky to be hired by regular airlines, are thus still bearing the brunt of the shuttle, though they have been flying only two nights out of every four instead of every night, as they did before the ex-U.S. Air Force C-97s arrived...