Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Private Papageorgiou's heart was high, his spirits soaring. The Greek army was slowly beating back the Communist guerrillas who, more than once, had been close to engulfing the whole country. Georgios and 200,000 Greek soldiers like him had accomplished this feat with the help of a soldier from a foreign land with a heart every bit as stout as theirs. He was Lieut. General James Alward Van Fleet, combat infantryman, sometime U.S. division and corps commander and now head of the Joint U.S. Military Advisory and Planning Group (JUSMAPG) in Greece...
That is the country West Pointer Van Fleet must help to peace and order...
...Bless Him." A fighter whose job it is to help the Greeks fight, Van Fleet has shortcomings both as a diplomat and as an administrator. He has had his full share of criticism. He has been accused of being naive, bossy, publicity-conscious. His relations with Ambassador Grady are on the cool side, but he gets along well with Generalissimo Papagos. King Paul frequently joins the U.S. general on inspection trips to the fighting areas. Greeks who like Van Fleet, and most do, say that he is sincere san paidi-"like a child...
...population. An avid fan of Li'l Abner, the Prince wistfully recalled his hero's fabulous friend which, as a kind of one-animal Marshall Plan, had promised to provide humanity with an abundance of everything from eggs to suspender buttons (TIME, Dec. 27). "Even with American help," smiled Prince Chichibu, "the shmoos are quite needed in Japan...
...Back in 1826, he and his friends were only a handful, but they were serious about the idea that the nation's new common schools belonged to the public and that the public should be concerned to make them better. They organized the American Lyceum to help set standards, soon had members all over the U.S. For more than a decade these members made speeches, wrote articles, held public meetings. They got results: better training for teachers, the formation of state and county school boards, a constant buzz of public discussion on everything from school text books...