Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precepts of conduct for U.S. combatants, as enunciated last week by President Eisenhower...
...virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the U.S., and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the U.S.," President Eisenhower last week enunciated the U.S.'s first formal code of conduct for prisoners of war. The code resulted from the bitter experience of the Korean war, in which 38% of 7,190 U.S. prisoners of war died of disease, malnutrition or maltreatment,* and in which at least 192 P.W.s were found chargeable with collaborating with the enemy. It was a stern document, founded upon "the qualities which we associate with men of integrity...
...regret your conduct?" asked the prosecutor. Wintle was incredulous. "Not in the very least!" he snapped. With that, Lieut. Colonel Wintle (ret.) wheeled and marched off to six months in prison at Wormwood Scrubs. Said London's Daily Express admiringly: "You may say or think what you like about Alfred Wintle. But here is an Englishman...
...make it all unnecessary by learning how to spot in advance the recruit who will go over the hill or sock the skipper. Also, since some bad apples will always get through, it would like to be able to look at each and decide whether the canker of bad conduct can be cut out so that the offender can safely be returned to duty...
...issued a pastoral letter warning young Irish to arrange for a job, lodging and contact with their countrymen before going to England. He also authorized a pool of missionaries from all the principal religious orders in Ireland, plans to spread them through the big cities beginning this fall to conduct missions among expatriates. By winning back many of the Irish and reimposing a few of the old rules from back home, the missionaries hope to have more apostles, fewer apostates...