Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Lieut. General Sir Giffard Le Quesne Martel, who headed a British military mission to Moscow during the war, in a speech at Bristol: "I think he [Stalin] was banished to the Crimea for a bit and then he came back and found that Molotov and Vishinsky and that...
...Rotund, romantic Lieut. Henri-Marie Beyle-who had never ridden a horse or seen a battle-hoisted his huge rump into the saddle and galloped off to war. His armor included two pistols, a large saber and the works of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Racine and Moliere...
...Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay, Deputy Military Governor of the U.S. zone in Germany, last week categorically denied rumors that he intended to resign because he could not get on with the Russians. Said Clay: "I can get along with the Russians very well-either with or without gloves...
...Lieut, General John R. Hodge, commander of U.S. occupation forces, declared martial law for Kyongsang-Pukto Province. Communist agitators could find receptive audiences in some sectors of the U.S. zone. Monumentally ill-equipped at war's end to occupy or govern Korea, the U.S. is still trying to live down initial errors: the bad feeling created by retaining Japanese police, however briefly, as a temporary control force (the Soviets booted them quickly and efficiently in the north) ; a willingness to string along with doddering Korean oldsters, instead of young, competent and popular leaders; the crowning fiasco of abandoning rice...
Last week's visit to Panama was one stop on a tour. Haya had already been in Colombia and Venezuela. In Panama, where the university gave him an honorary law degree, Lieut. General Willis D. Crittenberger invited him to lunch at Canal Zone headquarters. Haya would go to Costa Rica and Guatemala. To each country he had an official invitation...