Word: facings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomat with a lawyer's incisive mind, Jessup was picked as the ideal man to thread a way through the evasions and admissions of the State Department's shaky 1,054-page white paper on China, turned out a report that put the best face on the U.S.'s weak and vacillating policy in Asia. Then he turned to an even tougher task. As head of a three-man committee, he set to auditing the entire U.S. Far Eastern policy...
...Only about half of Sun's troops will take his orders; the others feel themselves bound to generals who reject Sun's authority. Actually, Sun would prefer a smaller, more compact army than he now commands. Unreliable generals have been sacked right & left without regard to traditional face-saving niceties. Sun is now busy re-establishing their units under generals of his own choosing...
Idle or disaffected Nationalist soldiers, whose unruly behavior had outraged Formosans in the past, have been disarmed and put to work preparing defenses on the shallow, sandy beaches that face the mainland; others have been sent to Sun's U.S.-style training camps in the south. The Formosans, who spent 50 years before World War II under Japanese rule, are getting used to the Chinese soldiery. "A country must have soldiers to have peace," said one farmer. "The ones in our village seldom bother us any more...
Cold Soil. Commissioner Pugmire's plain, earnest, large-jawed face is that of a veteran campaigner. He has been dedicated to the cause for almost half a century. A third-generation Salvationist, he and his forbears-bridge army history from its founding to its present...
Said Board Secretary A. T. L. Watkins: ". . . There are too many scenes of torture and novel means of killing . . . One or two blows in a fight should be sufficient. When it comes to a man's hands being held behind his back while his face is smashed to pulp, we draw the line...