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Down Constitution Avenue this week marched one of the smartest, toughest fighting units the U.S. had ever sent to the battlefield. The 442nd Regimental Combat Team-all Nisei except for a sprinkling of officers-was home from the wars. On the rain-soaked Ellipse adjoining the White House, the wiry little soldiers, their crisp khaki crumpling to a soggy brown, stood rigidly at attention while President Truman fixed the Presidential Unit Citation banner to the regimental colors...
...their bags and headed for home they had constructed a determined, deadly serious, left-of-center plan of action. It called for: international control of atomic energy, Big Three unity, a guaranteed annual wage, expansion of TVA-style river projects, solid opposition to antilabor, Jim Crow* and anti-Nisei legislation. True to the motto, it vetoed the idea of a veterans' bonus...
...Tokyo's smart Nippon Theater he was singing his latest song-a dialogue between a G.I. and a Japanese girl-when two Nisei from Allied Headquarters dropped...
...lynch victim. Those violent pictures never faded from his mind. Last week, for flaying racism wherever he found it, Editor Hodding Carter, 39, of the Greenville, Miss. Delta Democrat Times, won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize ($500)* for distinguished editorial writing. Especially cited: his plea for fairness to returning Nisei soldiers...
With the help of two other ex-G.I.s (onetime Navy Pilot Jack Hill, the 440-yard free-style champ and Sprinter Halo Hirose of the famed 100th Nisei Battalion) Ohio State swam off with the team championship. The Buckeyes won even though Navy Specialist 2/c Joe Verdeur, swimming for the Philadelphia Turner Club, set two new world breast stroke records in the 200-yards (2:19.5) and 200-meters...