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Made wary by the increasing flow of Red accusations, U.N. officers had gone at once to the scene of the alleged murder. They queried the assistant commander of the Chinese platoon, who said frankly that he had seen only one of the assailants clearly-a man in a white shirt and dark trousers, with a sidearm. In a moderate reply to the Red protest, General Ridgway pointed out that no troops under his command wore such a uniform...
...thrills to the "knightly shimmer" of a dashing captain headed for certain death at Stalingrad. But if Hitler's Germany had had the same ratio of soul-searching Hamlets as Unquiet Night, the Fiihrer's Wehrmacht would have been reduced to a hard core of about a platoon...
...soldier cuts an ominous figure in his red-starred uniform and high black boots. Often columns of them, with the iron tops of their boots clicking rhythmically against the sidewalk, pass by. They keep their gaze straight ahead, and their faces deadpanned. Occasionally, some 19 year-old in the platoon sneaks a glance at the customers in a sidewalk cafe to catch their reaction. Most of the patrons feign unconcern...
Macdonald learned the worth of sacrifice in a hard school. In 1942, after two years as a British army chaplain, he switched to combat duty with the paratroopers. A bit later, while commanding a platoon in North Africa, he was taken prisoner. Until the end of the war, he ministered to fellow prisoners, mostly U.S. airmen, in a Luftwaffe camp. "The war," he said, "taught us the indescribable latent courage of the ordinary person...
...MacArthur dramatically reminded Congress last April that "Old Soldiers Never Die," he set off wild scramble in Hollywood to sew up he phrase as title for a movie (TIME, April 30). Twentieth Century-Fox won the registration race, and the title was assigned o a story about an infantry platoon's galant rearguard action in Korea. Last week, with the film nearing completion, the company dropped the label as "not suitable." Slew title: Fixed Bayonets...