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...months ago in the South Pacific, husky, khaki-clad Lieut. Commander Harold Stassen, 36, tieless and open-collared as flag secretary to informal Admiral "Bill" Halsey, said...
Recently, as a seemingly endless column of NTS (Communications) men cadenced their way across the busy intersection near Littauer, the usual traffic and pedestrian jams resulted on either side of the khaki-clad marchers. Suddenly one of the feminine onlookers gave a deep sigh and exclaimed to her friend...
Private Louis Fadel looked out of his foxhole, saw men in khaki shorts, khaki shirts and pith helmets across the river. They looked like British soldiers. A faint voice called: "Don't fire on us. We're friends. We're friends." Fadel's sergeant ordered his men to hold their fire...
While the big, drab supply trucks lurch slowly over the scrubby, khaki-grey plateau of southern Persia, bearing Lend-Lease supplies to Russia, Persia remains on the United Nations payroll. If the Allies seize all of the Mediterranean, the cumbersome overland route to Russia may be abandoned; Persia will be out in the cold. Shrewd Persian Premier Ali Soheily added these facts last week,came up with a neat sum-Persia declared war on Germany to become eligible: 1) for Lend-Lease; 2) for a seat at the peace table...
...pall was cast over a considerable portion of the class which arrived clad in Khaki when the categorical imperative was delivered decreeing the wearing of the gray. Most of this suffering minority would prefer that the warships be painted light brown...