Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moment of Destiny. Lieut. General Wedemeyer's directive from Washington was simple: help China forge an effective fighting force. In Chungking Wedemeyer faced a vortex of Chinese distrust, U.S. resentment, war weariness, political intrigue, near catastrophe. Two rare qualities were needed to cope with the problem-a mastery of soldiering in its highest reaches, and a talent for coalition...
...Wedemeyer's cordiality, recognized his brilliance. When the American, in a daring battle maneuver last fall, flew crack Chinese units from Burma* and the Chinese Communist border region (with Chiang's assent) to stop the Japanese advance in Kweichow, Chiang's opinion was confirmed. How well Lieut. General Wedemeyer has succeeded in the diplomatic part of his job was indicated last week when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek accepted an invitation to be Wedemeyer's guest at supper. Not since he became President of China has Chiang ever accepted such an invitation from a foreigner...
Nothing in Lieut. General Wedemeyer's orders gives him franchise to interfere in China's internal and external affairs. But the organizer of China's dawning victory could not fail to be in some degree the architect of China's future. And China's internal and external problems could not fail to influence the organization of victory...
...Died. Lieut. Commander John McCloy, 69, longtime U.S. Navy professional, one of the eight men in U.S. history to be twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor (for heroism in the Boxer uprising in 1900 and at the storming of the Veracruz Customs House in 1914); of a heart attack; in Leonia...
Perfect Matches. In Washington, Elizabeth Bliss married a Lieut. Divine. In Bozeman, Mont., a marriage license was issued to Charles Wheat and Agnes Cotton. In Coronado, Calif., one Dorothy Dix was wed to a Lieut. Danny Deaver...