Word: insignia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There only a few weeks ago the Nationalists had hoped to make their last stand. But to land last week would have been dangerous; Yunnan's Governor Lu Han was going over to the Communists, and his troops had turned their caps inside out to hide the Nationalist insignia and show their new allegiance. Lu had even tried to persuade some Szechwanese generals to seize Chiang in Chengtu and hold him for the Reds...
...most startling work in the group, apart from aesthetic considerations, is his pen drawing, "The White General," dated 1919. Standing against a background of human misery and brutality, is an exact representation of the Nazi of World War H--complete with Storm Trooper helmet and swastika insignia. Grosz saw things very clearly 30 years...
Only Stalin escapes this effect. "Perhaps," reflects T & C, his "plain* uniforms, quite unrelieved by any insignia . . . are studiedly symbolic of the wastes of vast Siberia . . . a perennial reminder of the Russian military might or might-not, a sort of sartorial sabre rattle...
...other officers of the 26th Division assembled for mess in the village of Benestroff. "It was wretched," said Gissen, "everything and everybody was covered with mud, and even the 4th Armored Division's tanks had bogged down in it." Somebody noticed another muddied man present, wearing no insignia, and asked if it wasn't Eisenhower...
Clad in a simple khaki uniform without insignia, China's Commander in Chief and President rose to his feet from a sofa in the corner of the room. Slowly, without show of emotion, he made the announcement that all had expected: he would leave Nanking and go to his native home. Then in his choppy Ningpo accent he read from a formal statement...