Word: comradeship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inveigled the Chinese into the Korean war in order "to slash the strength of China . . . because a strong China on Russia's southern frontier is the Kremlin's nightmare . . . China fought and bled while Russia looked on. To Mao Tse-tung this could hardly look like bosom comradeship ... It may mean China eventually goes the way of Yugoslavia . . . The Reds have been so busy looking for cracks in the structure of the democracies they have not noticed the perch they are sitting on is swaying and slowly crumbling . . . They cannot survive...
...This Is War!, Duncan explains what he set out to do: "I wanted to show what war did to a man. I wanted to show something of the comradeship that binds men together when they are fighting a common peril ... I wanted to show something of the agony, the suffering, the terrible confusion, the heroism which is everyday currency among those men ... I wanted to tell a story of war, as war has always been for men through the ages...
Despite its own mumbo jumbo and its deliberate lack of clarity, The Image of a Drawn Sword is a disturbing allegory: the desperate desire of Mr. Average for an existence in which love and comradeship replace tension and uncertainty. The book's elaborate use of symbolism, its bewildering time scheme in which past & present merge crazily, sharply recall the brooding of Novelist Franz Kafka. There is one important difference: Kafka's theme was man's search for God. Brooke's dazed hero would settle for something which he almost, but never quite, comes out and names...
Since their creation in 1948, the armed forces of South Korea had been modeled on those of the U.S. and trained by U.S. officers. Last week there were signs that war's close comradeship had put the finishing touches on the U.S.-style military education of South Korean soldiers & sailors...
...around. Among the most heroic were the Jehovah's Wit nesses. Owing to their "absolute love of truth, the Gestapo were glad to use these men in various prisons as informers, for in their love of truth they always went so far that they disregarded all ties of comradeship ... In spite of this, we owe them that respect which we would give to the fanatics at the period of the Reformation. Like them, with exemplary patience, they suffered unto death; no other Christian community had as many martyrs...