Word: mps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impounded. Germans noted the disappearance of several men who worked on the West Berlin force but lived in the Soviet sector. The Red cops raided black marketeers near the sector line, and when some of the fleeing Germans scrambled across it, the police followed. West Berlin police and Allied MPs appeared and ordered the invaders back; they complied, but the Red press screamed that the Western powers were "harboring" criminal fugitives...
Died. Abian Anders ("Wally") Wallgren, 55, Stars & Stripes cartoonist of World War I, whose tireless gouging at MPs, topkicks, cooties and second looies made him the comic favorite of the A.E.F.'s doughboys; of a liver ailment; in Upper Darby...
...Military police of the volunteer army set up standards of discipline unusual in Arab forces. One night last week a volunteer stepped into Freddie's bar (Freddie worked nine years in Detroit factories) to order a drink of arak, a fiery, licorice-flavored distillate of raisins. Two Arab MPs accosted him. "Aren't you ashamed?" they asked. "You who are about to die for the cause of Palestine, risking your immortal soul for a drink?" He left quietly...
...Russia, he slashed his wrists. But he was rushed to one of Berlin's American hospitals and recovered. He pleaded for help to get to the U.S. zone. Because of a U.S.Russian agreement to return each other's soldiery, his pleas were vain. When Red Army MPs came for him, Kovalev fought until they clapped a strait jacket on him. Hospital attendants last saw him in a Red Army ambulance beating his head against the side panels, trying to kill himself...
Germany's Chance. A minor street incident six years later helped convince Shirer that Germany still dreamed. Shirer, picking his way through ruined Berlin, saw two Russian soldiers arresting a mild, elderly U.S. colonel. Charges: snapping a picture of Russian MPs rounding up some black marketeers. A crowd of Germans formed out of nowhere to see the fun. ". . . Off to the jug he was marched while the Germans guffawed. Perhaps, I thought, they saw their first glimmer of hope in this little incident. In the end - Ja? - the Russians and Americans would never understand each other, never get along...