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Back at the White House, Harry Truman barely had time to wash up a bit before playing host to a royal visitor: Belgium's Regent Charles-Theodore-Henri-Antoine Meinrad, Count of Flanders. Prince Charles arrived amid a din of sirens. He wore the khaki uniform of a major general, was accompanied by Belgian Premier Paul-Henri Spaak. A tall young man with a penchant for playing ping-pong, he looked rather bored...
...bare floodlit stage of Nanking's National Assembly hall strode the Gimo, erect and austere in five-starred military khaki. He took his stand under a backdrop portrait of Sun Yat-sen while 2,500 Assembly delegates applauded.Then Chiang Kai-shek reported on the state of the nation...
...John Huston will never be a great writer, because he is a bad observer. On locations I wore any odd or old clothing, as the going was mostly rough; but when I presented myself at the hotel I did not wear "faded khaki" as Mr. John Huston claims, but was dressed immaculately in a new and expensive tailored suit as would be proper if one is to meet somebody whom he believes important at so swanky a place as the Reforma Hotel...
...Rome last week, an eye-catching story splashed across the columns of the independent Il Tempo. The left-wing partisans who call themselves "Garibaldini" would wear new khaki uniforms with red neckerchiefs and visored caps at a grand parade on Feb. 18. The partisans also had arms and ammunition. Asked II Tempo: "What does Scelba think of this...
...Manu, the knobby brown man shuffled weakly down the red sandstone pathway leading from Birla House to the vine-covered pergola which served as his prayer-meeting place. Slowly he climbed the three steps leading to the pavilion. A stocky young man in grey slacks, a blue pullover and khaki bush jacket stepped forward and knelt at Gandhi's feet. He was Nathu Ram Vinayak Godse, editor of the extremist newspaper Hindu Rashtra, which had denounced Gandhi as an appeaser of Moslems. "You are late today for the prayer," said the murderer. "Yes, I am," said Gandhi...