Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peace by Force. As flag secretary to Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., Commander Stassen had seen what the power of modern ships and planes and weapons can accomplish. Now he called for the U.S. "to remain strong on land, at sea and in the air," so that the nation may join with Russia, Great Britain, China, France and the other United Nations in furnishing a worldwide police power...
...Three are not too big to be defied by the London Poles. Last week the flag of defiance was boldly waved by Polish General Wladyslaw Anders, an Allied field commander in Italy. Before Winston Churchill had returned from Yalta, Anders denounced the Crimea verdict. Publicly he declared: "The Government ... in London [is] the only legal Government of the Polish State...
Then he sat down to pen a statement. Wrote he: "I am happy that the embassy to which I am devoted and for which I have worked for 14 years is going to be reopened under the Italian flag. . . ." For a few moments, it seemed as though Antonino was the real ambassador. He poured himself a glass of white wine and said: "It is a beautiful...
Some Marines Wept. The 28th Regiment (part of the sth Division) of tall, gaunt Colonel Harry ("The Horse") Liver-sedge, ex-Raider, took Suribachi Volcano on D-plus-four. When the U.S. flag was raised over this highest point on the island, some marines wept openly...
Commander Harold E. Stassen, 37, one of the G.O.P.'s most promising contenders for the 1948 Presidential nomination, just back from almost two years in the Pacific as flag secretary to Admiral Halsey, told reporters that his selection by President Roosevelt as a delegate to the forthcoming United Nations Conference at San Francisco was "a political liability within [his] own party"-but, of course, he would serve "without the least hesitation," and he hoped that San Francisco might "mean to the world of tomorrow what Independence Hall . . . has meant...