Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Fleet, had decided to evacuate 2,000 Navy wives from the Philippines. He had said, diplomatically, that their husbands would be on patrol duty a great deal. And jittery gossip went around Manila concerning the U. S. Army court-martial of brown, good-looking little Rufo Romero...
...liquor consumed at the party. Assigned to his native Philippines, Romero rose to a captaincy in the Philippine Scouts (Filipino soldiers officered mostly by West Pointers). A month ago the U. S. Army arrested Captain Romero, put him on trial for selling military secrets. Out of the closed court-martial proceedings many rumors began leaking: that the testimony was dynamite, that Romero had been dealing with the Spanish Consulate, which had served as a go-between for Tokyo. The accused, it was reported, denied everything...
...Turks. As Russia goes, so goes Turkey. Turkey would scarcely dare to stand alone. The surprising firmness of Turkey last week may have been an indirect clue to Russia's mood. Just after German Ambassador Franz von Papen returned to Ankara with German "offers," the Turkish Government clamped martial law upon the land, ordered blackouts, revised train schedules, declared restrictions on automobile travel. The Istanbul newspaper Yeni Sabah challenged: "We do not recognize the German right to hand us an ultimatum. Germany can speak to us only as equals...
...three ways to get a woman" in the plane; the idyllic night in the woods of Compiegne; and the contrast as war and day break over the forest--these are the delicious drops in a goblet of directorial wine. It is a picture with a mood--and only the martial music of the final few moments mars the perfection of the whole...
...Imperial Majesty invited foreign diplomats, Government officials and wearers of Imperial decorations into the Imperial Park to contemplate his chrysanthemums, arranged in martial rows and patterns of incredible genus and color, arrayed in booths as mountains, cascades, rivers. In the Palace. Hirohito performed certain religious mysteries, and read aloud a poetic rescript. He climaxed the week by showing himself before the people...