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...tell that made his first story one of the best-seller nonfiction books of the year. "Retreat from Glory" gives the chaotic situation of unrest in central Europe just after the war. With an eye to details, he describes the elegant British minister, Sir George Clerk: "Alongside the squat khaki-and-blue-trousered figures of the Czech and French generals he looked like a thoroughbred in a field of hacks." Mr. Lockhart unconsciously appears to recognize in his present book the lack of drama that colored his last as he admits "In Russia I had witnessed a proletarian revolution...
...Kremlin wall. Two months ago he persuaded the Russian high command to tell off a squad of cavalrymen to learn polo from his secretary. He pointed out that polo was played many centuries ago by the horsemen of Tibet who gave it its name pulu. Ambassador Bullitt, in trig khaki riding breeches and a well-cut tweed coat, umpired last week's match while War Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov and Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff sat on the sidelines...
Sirens screeched and an open motorcar swept up with Adolf Hitler. In simple khaki the little Chancellor entered with enormous Speaker Göring, gorgeous in his self-designed uniform as a General of Aviation (see p. 16). Deputies bellowed "Heil Hitler!" General Göring banged his bell, and then there was a long wait while the Chancellor fussed with his papers before he took the rostrum. When he spoke his voice at first lacked its usual barking force. "Deputies, men of the Reichstag," he husked, "by order of the Reich Government, the Reichstag's President Göring called you together...
...picturesque white stucco houses surrounded with jasmine and banana plants lived a prosperous population of 25,000 people. During the Spanish-American War, volunteers in blue and khaki slapPed mosquitoes, trained impatiently at Fort Taylor. During the World War, Key West again gained military prominence when a $2,500,000 submarine base was begun there. It was never commissioned, and not long after, Key West began to slip...
...besieged the Auto-Lite plant. By evening the 1,500 workers within, exchanging missiles with the strikers outside, dared not leave. They spent the night barricaded in the plant while windows were smashed, gates broken down. Next day Ohio's Governor White ordered 700 Guardsmen to the plant. Khaki-clad, tin-hatted, armed with gas bombs, rifles, bayonets, machine guns, the young Guardsmen from Ohio's towns and countryside marched in. Not peace but warfare followed. Though the factory ceased operations, rage and resentment seized the strikers who harried the soldiers with insults, jeers, rocks. Every window...