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...broadcasts spread hatred for the U.S. among the 900,000 Palestinian refugees. In French North Africa, Nasser's radio preached enmity to the French. Despite Nasser's "soldier's word" to the contrary, the French say that in Algeria they have captured 50 graduates of Egyptian non-com schools, and believe there are 500 more Egyptian-trained guerrillas fighting there...
During the stormy 30's, when U.S.-Soviet relations were largely filled with acrimony, the staunchest friend of the United States in Moscow was probably Marshal Kliment E. Voroshilov, Minister of Defense and member of the Politburo. A non-com in the Czarist army, Voroshilov was made an officer by Trotsky's decree of August 13, 1918. His rise was phenomenal: reaching Defense Minister only six years later, he has ever since been among the half-dozen key men in the Moscow hierarchy. Quickly he came to close terms with William C. Bullitt, the first U.S. ambassador to the Soviet...
...army is not all bad. A native non-com accurately sizes up Gadein and helps him over the rougher spots. His British commanding officer likes him and protects him. But Gadein, in a world run by discipline, is like a giraffe staked out in a suburban garden. Inexorably, he slips down in the military social scale to latrine orderly. Inevitably he is court-martialed on false charges, convicted and sent to a detention center...
Your editorial in the December 19 Crimson praising the War Department Information and Education Program strikes an old I & E non-com like myself as being a bit tragic-comic...
Died. Faustin E. Wirkus, 49, Marine Corps non-com who became, by popular demand, King Faustin II (1925-29) of the 10,000 voodoo-practicing natives living on the island of La Gonâve (near Haiti), where he was stationed as a one-man police force (his subjects gravely saluted him: "Bon soi, roi!"-TIME, April 6, 1931); after long illness; in Brooklyn...