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...MATÉRIEL
...each and $40 worth of linen, had to put two beds in the dining room and eat in the kitchen). "They are fine to have in the house," she said. Horace Jackson put up a colonel in his guest room and two lieutenants in the garage. Editor Mat Jones put up a captain and his wife: "We just gave them the run of the house and we got along fine." A Negro couple boarded three Negro officers. A month of rain turned the ground to sticky gumbo; it became regulation for the soldiers to take off their muddy shoes before...
...Soviet troops who pushed the Germans away from Moscow last winter. Their work makes a bitter, revealing, angry document. It shows, where words fail, the enormous physical impetus required to get a military offensive going in the paralyzing cold of the Russian winter. It also shows, by acres of matériel that the retreating Germans left behind, that their withdrawal was by no means strategic...
...years Frederick Moore served the Japanese government as adviser on international affairs. Seven ambassadors to Washington-Shidehara, Hanihara, Mat-sudaira, Debuchi, Saito, Horinouchi, Nomura-worked with his assistance. He was a member of the Japanese delegation which went to the League of Nations to argue Japan's case for the invasion of Manchuria. When Matsuoka, the delegation's head; insolently marched out of the League Assembly, he was followed by all his fellow delegates save Frederick Moore...
From new beachheads at Buna and Gona Mission, Japanese foot soldiers slithered through the dark jungles of New Guinea like drops of mercury spilled on a door mat. They were far down below their landing points before the last of their force had set foot aground. But this time they ran into opposition that was more jungle-wise than they...