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...court martial for "misbehavior before the enemy" was swift and crushing. After a three-day trial at a command post 200 yards behind the front lines, Leon Gilbert became the first U.S. soldier in Korea sentenced to die for panicking under fire...
...liberation from the dual rule of the Russians and Kim II Sung, the people of the city had nothing to do. In the city hall, a former schoolteacher went falteringly about the business of pretending he was mayor. Two rickety sound trucks wheezed about the streets alternately playing martial music and exhorting the citizenry to get their city running again. But there was no evidence that anyone in town had any idea of what to do next or how to do it. Almost everyone who had held a position of responsibility before the liberation had fled north with the Communists...
...American takes no action, the Philippine Islands will soon be ripe for a successful Communist-becked popular uprising. The United States will then be forced to put down the revolt with American troops and to establish martial law, or to give up the twenty-three military, naval, and air bases she holds in the Islands...
...General Alphonse Juin and Minister for Indo-China Jean Letourneau landed at Hanoi's Gialam airfield after the long flight from Paris, a welcoming band struck up the Marseillaise and the Thanly-Nien Hanh Khuc (the Vietnamese anthem, March of Youth). Then the two Frenchmen hurried away from martial music to study the martial setback suffered by France in northern Indo-China...
...Gaunt Faces. In such a book, arrangement counts heavily. Picture History's twelve sections skillfully plait far-flung but interrelated events into a clean-cut chronology. The result is a sense of historical meaning, from Hitler's first martial rumbles to the dramatic ceremony on the deck of the Missouri. Much of the book's clean impact comes from the 75,000-word text, written mostly by Novelist John Dos Passos and TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod. Closely wedded to the pictures, their text is at once sharp description and lucid interpretation...