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Another alleged nation declared war on the U.S. and Britain last week: Japan's puppet government of the Philippines, headed by "President" José Laurel, one-time Supreme Court justice. He had cause to fear that his term might be growing shorter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: From Yap to Manila | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

Monty got new honors the same day: the rank of Field Marshal, conferred by King George VI. The award set up a new cacophony of confusion: did Monty's crown and laurel wreath outrank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF FRANCE: Appomattox, 1944 | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...Chaplain Laurel Garnett Gatlin was back on active service in the U.S. Navy last week. Said the 45-year-old Southern Baptist: "The Lord has overruled the injustices meted out to me in my removal from active duty by recalling me to do the thing I felt I had a right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gatlin Back | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

Hell-Fire. The overzealous chaplain was Kentucky-born Laurel Garnett Gatlin, 44. In the four Southern pastorates he has held, Preacher Gatlin has pounded out straight hellfire & damnation. After each service he would make a last-minute appeal to any sinner not to leave church without embracing the Lord Jesus and being saved. To Preacher Gatlin the Navy seemed like a field ripe unto the harvest. So he became a Navy chaplain, served nearly eight tumultuous months. By the end of that time, the Navy asked Chaplain Gatlin to resign. He refused, was thereupon relieved from active duty because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gatlin Gunnery | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...profile photographs, well known in America: he is of medium (5 ft. 8 in.) but athletic build, with a lifted head, rather blond, grey eyes and bushy eyebrows and the finely chiseled face of an American Indian. He wore boots and a simple grey-green uniform. Only the golden laurel leaves at his lapels and cuffs indicated the Supreme Commander of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia. At his feet lay Tiger, a German police dog the size of a calf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TITO'S YUGOSLAVIA | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

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