Word: namelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gleamed in English meadows and harebells nodded by English streams as toiling infantrymen sweated and wriggled through the final stages of their training. Across the pale green of awakening countryside, endless convoys lurched, Bren gun carriers clattered, jeeps buzzed and tanks clanked. Assault troops splashed wearily ashore on countless nameless stony beaches; the thunder of artillery practice on Salisbury Plain mounted toward unbearable climax...
...waters gave up a bloated, battered body. The man had been shot, beaten and tortured; his fingernails had been pried away. His skin had been stained dark, his hair dyed, his fingertips sandpapered smooth. The elaborate efforts to hide his identity were successful: the corpse is still nameless and unclaimed...
There are two Polish Women's armies to day: one in Poland, the underground army of nameless soldiers who know they are fighting a good fight. Another, the Pestkas, the Polish Women's Auxiliary Service, who had gone through "thick & thin" with the Polish Army in Poland, in Russia, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Egypt and Great Britain. They had fought not only against the enemy, but also against the epidemics which broke out among the Polish evacuees from Soviet Russia. Many of them died in this fight...
There were some who mourned and were nameless. They were the men with a cause but no party, the remaining young hopefuls in the Wallace wing, who had looked on helplessly as the President dealt more & more with the Hagues, Kellys and Flynns, the Jesse Joneses and Big Businessmen...
Correspondent X was more than grateful. Wrote he to Wendell Willkie: "You have actually saved a life, and probably two." Until he returns soon to Russia and claims his bride, Correspondent X prefers to remain nameless.* And he can undoubtedly count on Politicians Stalin and Willkie to keep his secret...