Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inclusion which might surprise ex-Lieut. General Doolittle (now a Shell Union Oil Corp. executive...
...Trieste, once more in the world of free men, the three released Americans, Lieut. William Van Atten, Pfc. Glen A. Meyer and Pfc. Earl G. Hendrick Jr., told their story of five days in the Yugoslav shadows...
...Lieut General Wedemeyer has always been antiCommunist. He was anti-Communist during his earlier mission to China as Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Nov. 6, 1944 et seq.). His report on the Chinese situation could not be anything but antiCommunist, and probably favored U.S. aid to China. If so, it was big news to both countries. What (or who), Americans wondered last week, was holding up its publication...
...Said Lieut. Van Atten: "The most surprising thing about the whole incident was the extreme belligerency of the Yugoslavs in seizing us and then the contrasting careful way they treated us before our release. Boy! They really handled us with kid gloves during our detention...
Home in a Strait Jacket. Desertions from all ranks of the Red Army were so numerous that Russian border guards had been doubled. Berlin saw a typical tragedy. When young Red Army Senior Lieut. Alexis Kovalev was ordered back to Russia, he slashed his wrists. But he was rushed to one of Berlin's American hospitals and recovered. He pleaded for help to get to the U.S. zone. Because of a U.S.Russian agreement to return each other's soldiery, his pleas were vain. When Red Army MPs came for him, Kovalev fought until they clapped a strait jacket...