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There was the customary pre-dawn prelude of machine-gun and mortar fire. Then troops from the capital garrison at Asunción moved in. In no time at all, as revolutions go, Army strongman Lieut. Colonel Benítez Vera had fled from his Campo Grande headquarters. Box score: five killed, scores wounded. By noon, as the official communiqué said, "absolute tranquillity" again reigned over Paraguay...
When our barns are full. Two and a half hours after the Bierut mission took off to return to Warsaw, Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia arrived at Moscow's Central Airport. Resplendent in visored garrison cap with a gold MacArthurian band of "scrambled eggs," dress-blue tunic and breeches, polished black cavalry boots and white doeskin gloves, he too stepped to the airport microphone, said: "The peoples of Yugoslavia have seen that in the Soviet Union they have a most sincere friend and most reliable defender...
Could more food be taken from the beaten enemy? Said Hoover: "There are Americans who . . . believe in an 'eye for an eye,' a 'tooth for a tooth'.. . . No one is the enemy of children . . . [and] to keep 500,000 American boys in garrison among starving women and children is unthinkable...
Even as Marshall settled down to a series of conferences, Communists and Nationalists fought fiercely to consolidate local positions in Manchuria before the General's pacifying personal prestige could still their guns. A 40,000-man Chinese Communist army blasted the small Nationalist garrison out of Changchun, Manchuria's capital, and halted a relief column near Szepingkai, 70 miles away. Near Nationalist-held Mukden, the Communist-led United Democratic Army ambushed Lieut. General Chao Kung-wu's 25th Division, turned it back from the coal-and-bauxite-rich city of Penki (Penhsihu) new Communist provisional capital...
...burning Frankfurt, he remembers,. Garrison Soldier Helmut Lotz killed himself, wife and two children rather than disobey the order to evacuate. "He saw only one way out." In Leipzig, Knauth met a girl with whom he had played as a child. "What have I had out of life?" she asked. "I was 15 when the Nazis came. That is a happy age for girls but I don't remember any happiness. ... I can't remember that I have ever been free of a sense of doom about this country, since the Nazis came. They ruined what they touched...