Word: instructional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With disloyalists like Japanese Puppet Wang Ching-wei and other questionable elements, China faces the fifth-column problem in an acute form, and Chiang is acutely conscious of it. He refers his people not to the fall of France but to Chinese history: "You should instruct our people to take lessons from the annals of the Sung and Ming Dynasties. The fall of these two dynasties was not caused by outside enemies with a superior force, but by a dispirited and cowardly minority in the governing class and the society of the time. . . . If we do not destroy ourselves...
...events that no true Nazis care to contemplate. But last week in Berlin Lieut. General Hobun Yamashita, head of Japan's military mission to the Axis powers, let it be known that the Führer had suggested that in his last will and testament he would instruct the German people "to bind themselves eternally to the Japanese spirit...
...night, so children couldn't hear them and have their little livers scared out of them, they gushed from Chicago's WMAQ and were beyond doubt the most goose-fleshing chiller-dillers in air history. At each broadcast's opening a deep, dark, dank voice would instruct listeners to put their lights out and settle back in their chairs, whereupon gore would commence to flow, bones to snap, screams and groans to rowel...
According to this editorial, the instructors are unprepared. This is an absurdity. The officers who instruct the courses are line officers of the Navy who have seen duty aboard naval craft and will see it again. These men know that which they teach; they have not only studied it, but much responsibility has depended on their knowledge. Any incapability would have caused their dismissal. When the editor stated that these officers were not trained for pedagogical work, he failed to consider that, as active officers, they were required to train the men beneath them. In addition, these men are older...
...destroyers, three gunboats, three coast-patrol vessels, twelve river gunboats, two transports. Not on the Caribbean, but close enough to the Panama Canal to be important, is Ecuador, with a small Army of 7,500, a potential war strength of 48,000. An Italian military mission, which had been instructing the Ecuadorian Army for 15 years, was sent home after Italy entered the war last summer. The U. S. now has an aviation mission there, as well as a naval mission to instruct 400 men how to operate the training ship Presidente Alfaro, which was bought...