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...country have a free choice of parties and candidates. Britain asserted its right and duty to keep order in liberated countries until such a free choice could be freely exercised. Without apparently advancing any alternative, the U.S. condemned this as "outside influence." Britain's worry was that tightly-knit Communist minorities, aided by disorder, might take control of Western Europe, country by country. To this possible outcome the U.S. statement, on its face, proclaimed indifference...
...trainer and desk general, but he needed top field commanders. He gave Hodges one more test: command of the Third Army. The 1943 Louisiana maneuvers clinched the case and Marshall's conviction of Hodges' abilities: "unbeatable in the kind of command that requires deliberate method, close-knit organization, the kind of mind that nothing can distract." Hodges went to England and to battle...
...Officers who find their close-knit units disrupted by discharges so that they will have to fit new units together from fragments of others. (The War Department admitted: "The simplest plan . . . would have been to return . . . surplus units to this country and discharge their personnel intact...
...freedom from living agony, I feel the loss more than I had thought I should. We were a couple outside the ordinary. It was in 1906 that by mutual consent and after unconscious trials we definitely adopted self-restraint as the rule of life. To my great joy this knit us together as never before. ... I now come to your address which you delivered before the Legislature and of which you have kindly sent me a copy...
Divorced. By Lana Turner, 23, well-knit sweater girl: Stephen Crane, 28, Los Angeles broker; after three years of marriage, for each the second, one child; in Los Angeles. Said she: Crane's quarreling kept her nervously unraveled...