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...weeks ago, Harvardman Schine finished basic military police training at Georgia's Camp Gordon, where he had applied for the Army's criminal investigation course. The application was rejected last week by Major General William H. Maglin, the provost marshal general, who explained that Schine had been an "outstanding soldier" at Camp Gordon, "but I'm not sure that the past history previous thereto was the same...
...only living Marshal of France was sacked for flouting orders and openly attacking government policy. The Premier of France was roughed up in a mob scene beneath the Arc de Triomphe. For 20 miserable minutes the Minister of Defense was surrounded and threatened by a muttering, gesticulating gang of Parisians. That, in brief, was what was going on in Paris while on the other side of the world, at Dienbienphu, soldiers of France fought to glory...
...famed "Crusaders' Sword," which the city of London presented to General Eisenhower at the London Guildhall; an ancient Japanese sword with the imperial chrysanthemum on the scabbard, a gift of the men of the ist Cavalry Division; the jewel-encrusted, $300.000 sword of Wilhelmina, from The Netherlands; Marshal Zhukov's personal dagger; and ceremonial swords and daggers from a dozen other countries...
...Send for the Fire Chief." Kin to ten dukes, a marshal of France and one of Lafayette's officers, De Castries joined the French army as a private (1921), got his commission at cavalry officers' school, kept in trim between the wars by riding on the French international equestrian team (he once held the world record for the mounted broad and high jump). Early in World War II, De Castries was badly wounded and captured while trying to lead 60 men through an encircling German battalion. He failed in three escape attempts, made it on his fourth...
...Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin, France's top soldier and the man most likely to command the European Army, if ever it is formed, seriously damaged its prospects by denouncing the EDC treaty as "insufficient . . . not clear enough," a "misdeal" at France's expense...