Word: martials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...week, amid clouds of red smoke, Mitchell's shots were still echoing on the Danube. According to the Budapest trade union daily Nepszava, "Composer" Howard Mitchell had provided "rhapsodic variations" for 16 cannon and orchestra at the urgent request of "Minister of War" Louis Johnson, who wanted some "martial and blood-stirring" music to honor U.S. armed forces...
...remembered that . . . applicants were encouraged and carefully selected. They came from fighting ships and battlefields as well as universities. These men were subject to military regulations. Court-martial threatened the unruly, . and scholastic failure resulted in immediate reassignment as enlisted personnel. Are only those who carry guns of value to their country...
Until a few weeks ago the 11,000 citizens of the sober little town of Saint-Junien in central France got along all right with their Communist mayor. Then M. le Maire Martial Pascaud decided to make a gesture of obeisance to his masters in the Kremlin. Tottering old Communist Leader Marcel Cachin paid a visit to Saint-Junien. To mark the occasion, Mayor Pascaud marched a party of 100 local Communists down Saint-Junien's main street, the Boulevard Leon Gambetta, to hang new signs on each corner rechristening the street Boulevard Joseph Staline. When the street...