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Finally he received permission to plead his case before the Supreme Court. Representing the other side was a well-balanced roster of legal talent that included Thomas C. Clark (then Assistant to the Attorney General), Solicitor General Charles C. Fahy, an Army major-general, and three Department of Justice attorneys. Nevertheless, Billings won the decision, the Supreme Court forcing the Army to turn him over to civil courts...
...Liberty. Last September De Lattre went to Washington to plead for more U.S. aid to the French in Indo-China. "We are fighting," he said, "on a world battlefield for liberty . . . for peace." Few Americans took note of the wisdom behind those words. Many, on the other hand, noted the black band on the sleeve of the general's always impeccable uniform. It represented his only son, Bernard, killed in action in Indo-China just 15 weeks before. Close friends felt that General De Lattre never fully recovered from the shock of that loss, but to one he wrote...
Blood & Billions. General Alphonse-Pierre Juin, inspector-general of the French army, had been dispatched to Washington to plead France's case. The French were frankly alarmed. General de Lattre de Tassigny, the leader on whom France, and France's friends, had counted, was out of the battle (see below). The guerrilla warfare the French had been fighting since 1946 had already cost more casualties than those suffered by the U.S. in Korea-including the equivalent of three entire classes from St. Cyr, France's West Point, and ten sons of French generals. It had also cost...
...been misinformed: apparently there was no old Dutch tradition about breaking into churches, after all. The Dominicans' door was repaired and tightly locked, the action committee renounced further action, and the people of Huissen settled down to nurse a last hope-that the nuncio in The Hague would plead their cause at the Vatican...
Sometimes the crisis through which Iran is passing depresses Mossadegh to the point of tears and fainting spells. Just as often, he seems to regard the state of affairs with a light heart. When he came to the U.S. to plead his cause, mercurial Mossadegh was so ready with quips, anecdotes and laughter that Secretary Acheson thought the visitor should be reminded of the gravity of the situation. At a Blair House luncheon where Mossadegh was guest of honor, Acheson told a story: a wagon train, crossing the American West, was attacked by Indians. A rescue party found the wagons...