Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizens were startled. Was the Nicaraguan affair so grave that the grim-jawed top Marine of all must take command? An "official" report was published that General Lejeune's departure had been precipitated by a dark thing in the Marine Corps. Two Marine deserters, said the story, were teaching tricks of their trade to the rebel, Sandino...
Second in the U. S. command was Lieutenant Moses Gould. As the Captain fell, the Lieutenant, though wounded, rallied his men and rushed them forward out of the trap onto an open plain beyond. There they successfully repelled an attack by the Sandino forces, drove them into the forest where they disappeared like old-time Red Indians...
...COMMAND TO LOVE-Diplomats with their hair down...
...COMMAND TO LOVE?To love of country are added other kinds of love...
...COMMAND TO LOVE-There is a great deal of bad in the best of European diplomats...