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Defiant Pennant. In 1946 Henry Gurney was appointed to the ticklish post of Chief Secretary to the embattled British mandatory government of Palestine. He called for martial law, and applied the stringent methods he had learned in the jungle to Irgun's terrorists. Then in 1948, British High Commissioner Sir Edward Gent died in an airplane crash on his way home to London to report on the rising Red menace in the jungles of Malaya. Sir Henry Gurney was ordered to Malaya. In London, the Opposition questioned his fitness for the job (he had never been to Malaya...
...chloroformed his conscience. In twelve hours, one of Major Kartuschke's prisoners-21-year-old Lance Corporal Fedor Baranowski-would be shot by a firing squad. Curiosity and compassion impelled the chaplain to find out why. Through a long, anguished night, he wrestled with a stack of court-martial papers...
Next morning, police and steel-helmeted soldiers bearing fixed bayonets raided Tudeh headquarters, closed down two pro-Communist newspapers, and the government clamped martial law on Teheran. Tudeh leaders vanished. Harriman called on Premier Mohamed Mossadeq, talked for 70 minutes, made plans for a second meeting. For the moment, the Tudeh had been held. Teheran, tensely quiet, waited for the Harriman miracle...
While MacArthur let his waiting lunch grow cold, he spent an hour telling Roberts how he had spent the last 25 years of his life "among the colored peoples of the world," sympathized with their aspirations and needs. As for courts-martial, MacArthur agreed that they might have been excessive, pointed out that he had launched an investigation. And if he had used "Jim Crow" military units, he had not created them: "They were created in Washington and sent to me ... I did not ask for men by race, I asked ... for 'men.' " Then MacArthur fixed Roberts with...
...first published interview with MacArthur since his return to the U.S. It was not the first time Cincinnati-born Roberts has scored a newsbeat. He got the first exclusive interview with Dr. Ralph Bunche when the United Nations mediator returned from Israel, was the first to uncover the court-martial death sentence of Negro Lieut. Leon Gilbert in Korea (TIME...