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...battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Powell A. Fraser, had his jeeps dismantled, called for native bearers. Scores of volunteers-sturdy, brown-bodied Igorot women -eagerly picked up wheels, engines and other parts, carried them along paths which at one point soared 2,000 feet above the road. On the other side of the chasm the jeeps were reassembled, and Fraser's men sped after the Japs. The Igorot women stayed behind to help the engineers rebuild the road...
...Australia's rip-snorting Herbert Vere Evatt said that the Big Five interpretation was narrower than a version given previously by Sir Alexander Cadogan (rhymes with huggin'). Britain's Professor Charles Kingsley Webster said that Sir Alexander made a mistake because New Zealand's Peter Fraser caught him by surprise with a question. Fraser retorted that Cadogan had checked the transcript of the answer with him. Snapped Fraser to Webster: "Don't try to slide out by making misstatements. What you are doing is dishonest." U.S. Senator Tom Connally, who was presiding, got Fraser...
...only investigate whether it would be investigated." The charter draft showed the effect of this sort of talk. Dean Virginia Gildersleeve thought it a shame that the Pre amble, at least, was not rid of legal writing so that it would be an inspiration to the world. Fraser agreed. He suggested that the Preamble be given to Poet Archibald MacLeish, Assistant Secretary of State, so that he could imbue it with "life and soul and spirit...
Allied Victory. If U.S. forces have come a long way in two years, so have their Allies in the war against Japan-Australians, New Zealanders and men from the United Kingdom, half way round the world. The Royal Navy has, in its Pacific Fleet under Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, a force sufficient to take on the entire surviving Japanese fleet and destroy...
Died. Leon Fraser, 55, world financial expert who began a varied career as a poor, adopted farm boy at North Granville, N.Y., ended up as president of the billion-dollar First National Bank of New York, after being a reporter, teacher, soldier, bureaucrat, lawyer, diplomat; by his own hand (gunshot); on the lawn of the farm-summer estate where he grew up. He left notes blaming his melancholia: "Except for this mental depression, I have everything to live for. . . . Sorry to be a nuisance this...