Word: combats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rest for Wang meant a transfer from combat to a staff job (under surveillance) back in the hills. The commissar called on him regularly. But Wang's heart remained troubled. "I must think more," he said. "Fighting Japs I suffered much and gave my blood without regret. I could do so because my heart took part in the struggle. Now my heart forbids." When Kalgan fell, Wang's weary heart had not changed. As his unit prepared to retire into the mountains, he straggled behind and sent a message of surrender. A Government detachment picked Wang...
...Established by Pope Pius XI to combat "the great modern heresy of laicism [which] refuses to recognize the rights of God and His Christ over persons and peoples and organizes the lives of individuals, families and society itself, as though God did not exist. This laicism ruins society. ... It begets jealousy between individuals, hatred between classes and rivalry between nations...
From his book there is little for serious historians to salvage, but the general reader will find some of the best combat reporting done by an American. Much of what Middleton has to say merely underscores what most readers already know; but at least it is convincingly underscored: the unpreparedness of England and France, the defeatism of the French, the unyielding firmness of the British people during the time they stood alone...
...correspondents have ever learned how distasteful I-Was-There writing is to combat veterans. Middleton's book is one of the few that has a fair chance of cracking that resentment, especially in his intensely personal summing...
...until 1920 there was never any question about Sinfulness. The Watch and Ward Society was set up in 1876 to combat gambling, prostitution, obscenity and pornography, which, to the fertile minds of the Brahmins of the time, covered the field fairly well. With enthusiasm that would be suspected in other endeavors, Bostonians of excellent name and irreproachable connections condoned, even abetted book-burning, Carrie-Nation antics, even the use of Harvard undergraduates to test the carnal tendencies of certain girlies of hesitant virtue in the Back...