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...have been more popular with their men and the Russian public alike than barrel-chested, black-haired Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky. He combined many characteristics that Russians love: energy, muscular strength, stubborn calm, youthful daring, earthiness. He was up from the black soil, a worker's son, an orphan at nine, a shepherd in the Ukraine, a cadet at Kiev Military School, a total product of the Soviet state...
...camp's orphan asylum has only 60 babies, who are attended by three Japanese nurses. The number of civilians killed by bombing and shelling was surprisingly low on Saipan, and many of the thousands of adult civilians who committed suicide at the battle's end killed their children also...
Realization. Said the official report: "The resultant feeling on the part of individuals was that they were being double-crossed, and the feeling gradually grew up, abetted by certain officers, that the unit was an orphan, serving under an unsympathetic high command." That rang familiarly in Army ears: too often had the orphan complex been the fate of "special units...
...brassy-voiced girl Japcaster called "Little Orphan Annie" goes on every after noon at four to taunt homesick sergeants with what they are missing at home. She describes herself as "your best enemy" and plays U.S. semi-classical recordings...
Grim's conclusion: "Radio here is a link with home, but it's also an unwanted link with our enemy. . . . But you folks in the States don't have to worry about us. ... Orphan Annie from Tokyo, Jacques Chateau from Saigon, and Mrs. Henry Topping from Hsinking are just foolish voices crying in the wilderness...