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...army in which "leadership is not exclusively concentrated in a professional soldier class." Said he: "This is the type of army which . . . had to be extemporized to meet our needs in. World War I and World War II." The extemporizing U.S. Army had in deed spread responsibility widely; most of its officers were citizen soldiers. But the top leadership of the Army was still largely Regular. Out of 1,300 general officers in the Army today, only 25 are Reservists (e.g., Lieut. General James Doolittle, boss of the Eighth Air Force); only 14 were drawn direct from civilian life...
Japan admitted another execution of U.S. prisoners. A year after the deed, the Imperial Government announced (through the International Red Cross) that it had done to death three Navy men captured on Bataan and Corregidor. Japan named them: Marine Sergeant Joe B. Chastain of Waco, Tex.; Marine Corporal Victor Paliotti of Cranston, R.I.; Seaman First Class Ferdinand Frank Meringolo of Brooklyn...
...people whom Tom Pendergast habitually voted every election. Five years later Pendergast was sent to the penitentiary for a $443,550 income tax evasion. Said Harry Truman: "I won't desert a ship in distress." Years later he added: "Tom Pendergast never asked me to do a dishonest deed. He knew I wouldn't do it. When Tom Pendergast was down and out, a convicted man, [people] wanted me to denounce him. I refused. . . . I wouldn't kick a friend." Newsmen who battled the Pendergast dynasty agreed that Truman himself was untouched by scandal...
Perennial. In Manheim, Pa., the Zion Lutheran Church made payment No. 172 on the church plot, in accord with Baron William Henry von Stiegel's 1772 stipulation: in return for the deed "one red rose annually in the month of June for ever . . . shall be lawfully demanded by my heirs...
Says Chaplain Hoffmann: "In combat, no one stands out as doing anything heroic. Out there acts of heroism are common place. Probably the only reason that anyone gets a medal is that his deed happens to be noticed and reported. As to my spending most of my time in the front line with the men, well, this is the way that I look at it. ... The follows wounded at the front, perhaps lying for hours before help reaches them, are the ones who especially need a chaplain. There is nothing more terrifying than the feeling of lying alone, lost...