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...indicted on charges of lying to the Senate committee, of evading personal income taxes, and of falsifying the returns of Aviation Electric. And the Air Force, which had stripped him of his decorations and cut off his $550-a-month pension, was still waiting for a chance to court-martial...
...crowds kept surging through Prague. They were dazed. The loudspeaker system installed by the Germans blared martial airs and Communist communiqués from every streetcorner. A snatch of music or a few glibly triumphant phrases would suddenly hit people as reminders of the thing that had just happened, so quickly that they still could not grasp it. Men wept convulsively and uncontrollably...
...best friends are officers. But the assumption that officers are gentlemen and enlisted men are peas ants is a hangover from the Middle Ages. The caste system makes it a degrading and humiliating thing to be an enlisted man, and it shouldn't be." Mauldin wanted courts-martial composed 50-50 of officers and enlisted men, thought that officers should serve in the ranks first...
Common Defense. What Franklin Roosevelt and Mackenzie King had done at their Easter conference in 1941 was to solemnize the economic marriage of the U.S. and Canada. Mackenzie King had used martial rather than marital terms when he told Parliament that spring: "It involves nothing less than a common plan [for] the economic defense of the Western Hemisphere." But no matter how much the statesmen of each country might play it down for political expediency, the fact was inescapable: in effect, Canada had become an economic 49th state...
Dark Descent. Miss West's book is a descent into the circles of a drab inferno. It was reached through several pit heads-the bomb-battered building of London's Central Criminal Court, the House of Lords, a court martial near the blitzed waterfront at Portsmouth. Above all, it was reached through the collapsing corridors of many ruined minds...