Word: homesickness
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...tremendous appetite for the feast of peace it saw ahead-but it suffered from gas on the stomach. The belly-rumblings last week were audible. Labor yelled: "Fascism!" Management yelled: "Socialism!" Homesick G.I.s made unsoldierly uproar around the world (see ARMY & NAVY), and the prestige of the U.S. Army went down like a falling star, carrying the nation's prestige with...
...thin. Last week they snapped in a dozen places. On the Pacific coast veterans overflowed regular military installations and had to be quartered in ships tied to piers while they waited from four to six days for eastbound trains. In the San Francisco area alone, more than 50,000 homesick G.I.s sweated out Christmas...
...soldiers & sailors are bored, homesick, frustrated by language difficulties. They resent the fact that many Chinese have marked them as fall guys. Pickpockets and petty thieves prey on them. More ostensibly respectable Chinese gyp them openly. When Navymen began swarming ashore at Shanghai, the swank Park Hotel jacked its liquor prices 50%. Nightclub proprietors-Chinese and foreign-vie with each other in trying to take U.S. servicemen for all they can get. Ricksha drivers double and treble their fares. Waiters sneer at anything less than four times the conventional...
Like many another American fighting a homesick war in the Pacific, Captain Harold E. Stassen had plenty of time and inclination to wonder what all the shooting was about back home. Last week Civilian Stassen stood up before the Manhattan convention of the National Association of Manufacturers-and unfolded a plan marked by the patriotic optimism that veterans know well. What he suggested was, in effect, a U.S. conference-on the lines of the UNO conference at San Francisco-of the U.S. people, and a Ten-Year Plan. Said...
Army headquarters in Paris announced that "lack of shipping" would slow up redeployment by a month. Impatient, homesick G.I.s hit the ceiling. In the office of Stars & Stripes the angry staff members wrote and printed a letter that would surely have been censored if it had been sent to the composing room as an editorial...