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...legal rate; the price of rice has doubled; the price of fish, vegetables and oils has jumped even higher. These were the facts that sent Phoumi, Premier Boun Oum and a clutch of other top officials to Bangkok in a desperate search for help from Thailand's Marshal Sarit Thanarat...
Last week Sukarno installed a military-style "Economic Operations Staff" to deal with the situation. The governor of the National Bank became an army major general; the Chief Minister became a full general; the Foreign Affairs Minister became an air force vice marshal; the Distribution Minister became a rear admiral. The costume change will probably inspire a flurry of salutes at staff meetings, but as long as Sukarno keeps Indonesia on a war footing, the switch will be of little help...
...scoffed an underofficer, "but they are led by donkeys." So they were, as Historian Clark proves in this horrifying account of the early months of World War I. His charges, proved beyond doubt by huge and sickening casualty lists, are that the British commanders-notably Field Marshal Sir John French and General Douglas Haig-overrated the cavalry charge, underrated the machine gun, and stubbornly refused to change outmoded tactics. Clark calls French and Haig mass murderers, and few who read his book will contest the judgment...
Following a successful experiment inaugurated last year, Mark M. Mullin '62, the First Marshal of the Class, has asked all members of the Class to sign a "declaration of intent" to contribute to the Fund every year for the next three years. A pledge of $10 or more per year has been requested...
...Marshall and the other dignitaries adjourned to the Twenty-Fifth Reunion Class Marshal's luncheon, the crowd thought that it had seen most of the show. But Marshall's speech at the afternoon Alumni Association meeting was still to come...