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...history, was compelled to extend democracy with caution. The other (the Chinese Communists) was anti-democratic in philosophy and action. If any American could have achieved Chinese peace and unity, it was certainly General George Marshall. But the degree of U.S. failure was reflected in last week's martial news from China...
...Martial Memos...
Brazilians yell themselves hoarse over the spectacular quartet from Rigoletto, but they listened coolly while Sayao and French Baritone Martial Singher sang the climaxless Pelléas et Mélisande. Luckily for Bidu, she could do no wrong...
Major Fateh, commanding the battalion, clamped down martial law, seized Najafi and his chief aide, and ordered them shot. But as dawn broke, Fateh's superior officer, mindful of Tudeh influence at Teheran, stayed the executions. After three tense days of negotiations, a temporary compromise was patched up and the plant reopened...
William Lendrum ("Billy") Mitchell, late great prophet of air power, whose refusal to be silenced led to his court-martial in 1925 for "insubordination," got a token payment on the debt owed him by the U.S. The House finally got around to passing a bill-which the Senate had already sent down twice-authorizing the award of a special Congressional Medal of Honor...