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...This moderation even in virtue is characteristic of Siam. As the Spaniard says manana, so the Siamese says mai ben rai. If a government official is proved crooked or a wife unfaithful, if a favorite gamecock refuses to fight or an old friend proves treacherous, the Siamese says mai ben rai. It means never mind...
Died. John Christmas Moeller, 54, tiny gamecock of the Danish resistance, prewar Minister of Commerce (1940), postwar Foreign Minister (1945); of a heart ailment; in Copenhagen. Moeller helped establish the underground, then escaped to Britain in 1942 to head the Free Danish Movement. He negotiated an agreement with Britain whereby the R.A.F. spared Danish towns from saturation bombing so long as Danish patriots stuck to a busy schedule of blowing up factories...
...Theodore Roosevelt Jr., assistant commanding general of the First Division, in which he won many a decoration during World War I, went an Oak Leaf Cluster for his Silver Star. The New Yorker this month reported from Tunisia on General Roosevelt: "He is at his best ... in battle; his gamecock strut and his slightly corny humor take on a new and attractive quality when exhibited under fire." Last week his citation reported that, during a savage enemy counterattack, General Teddy Jr. had proceeded to an advance observation post under intense shelling, strafing and dive-bombing, had stayed there until...
...touchy strategist, popular with his officers but fatally careless of administrative detail, was Joseph Eggleston Johnston, who took over the army Beauregard left. "Small, soldierly and greying, with a certain gamecock jauntiness," Johnston was already smoldering with rage at Jefferson Davis over being placed fourth in a list of full generals. Ceremonious, bad-tempered notes passed back & forth. The Secretary of War, Judah P. Benjamin, maddened Johnston by going over his head in military matters and out-arguing him afterward. At one sore point, Johnston beseeched Benjamin to help "create the belief in the army that I am its commander...
...accuses," the five defendants filed in. First was Jacomet, a humble, whipped-dog expression on his lean face. Next the soft-footed, bearlike hulk of Leon Blum, a peasant's woolen muffler wound around his neck. Third was La Chambre, youngest of the five. Then came the aged gamecock, General Game lin, his face wan from prison illness, his mustache no longer a trim, precise line above his lips. Last was Daladier, thick-necked Bull of Vaucluse. They sat facing the judges. Behind them 200 newspapermen, using Darlan police guards as copy boys, waited to send the story...