Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your statement concerning Yamashita [TIME, March 4], "Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita strode up its 13 steps, his big bulk dressed in a U.S. Army fatigue outfit-the symbol of military disgrace ordered by his conqueror, General Douglas MacArthur," was a terrible reflection on the millions of men who wore the fatigue uniform performing honorable duty, and a reflection on General MacArthur's judgment in ordering it that...
...rush job of passing a House approved bill authorizing presidential nomination of Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith as Ambassador to Moscow without affecting his military status and perquisites...
...heroes have made more money or become better known than warm and selfless Major Victor Joppolo, central character of Novelist John Hersey's best-selling A Bell for Adano. Few are now more obscure than ex-Lieut. Colonel Frank E. Toscani, the prototype of Joppolo in real life...
After the stage adaption of Adano (by Playwright Paul Osborn) opened in New York, Lieut. Colonel Toscani flew home from Italy on leave. He was entertained by Actor Fredric March (the stage Joppolo), Author Hersey, and Mayor LaGuardia. Solemnly he began to sign letters "Frank (Major Joppolo) Toscani...
...March 11 after a final conference with Generalissimo Chiang and Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, U.S. commander in the China Theater, the Special Envoy emplaned for the U.S. At the very last moment, he scored another success. Government and Communist negotiators agreed to extend the truce machinery to Manchuria. There the slowly evacuating Russians have left behind a situation which George Marshall openly Calls "critical." Meanwhile in Chungking this week, Communist General Chou kept the pot simmering by accusing the Kuomintang of seeking to continue "one-party dictatorship...