Word: polyglots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's biggest scientific group is the American Chemical Society, a polyglot organization of over 36,000. Its scientific cross section embraces professors, industrial chemists, $1,200-a-year research assistants-chemists high & low. Last week, in Manhattan for their annual convention, they were dazed by an unexpected gift. It amounted to $1,000,000 a year...
Back from the Normandy beachhead poured 15,000 prisoners wearing the Reichswehr green. Most of them were Germans but a surprising proportion was not. With the Aryan supermen came a polyglot sprinkling of at least 12 nationalities. Some of the slave peoples, it seemed, could be persuaded to fight for the Herrenvolk...
...Fifth Army commander, Lieut. General Mark Clark: "One of Kesselring's two armies will never fight again." It was about all he had time to say. He was in charge of the pursuit north from Rome. On his right, British General Sir Oliver Leese pressed forward with his polyglot Eighth. He, too, was trying for the great breakthrough, the disorganization that can be brought even to the best of troops...
Everybody Fights. General Sir Harold Alexander, the Allied commander in Italy, had every reason to be proud of his polyglot armies. The doughty Poles took Monte Cairo, a rock mass more than a mile high, and Piedimonte; Amaseno and Castro dei Volsci fell to the French and their black colonials; United Kingdom troops entered Aquino and swart fighters from India occupied Roccasecca. The Canadians, some of whom nonchalantly swam the Liri River, took Ceprano...
...anyone in history, once said: Give me allies to fight against. Though Teuton militarists admire Napoleon very much, there was no comfort in his dictum for the Germans who faced Alexander. In Italy, Alexander was certainly commanding allies, but in Egypt he had successfully managed an even more polyglot and rainbow-hued aggregation. He had learned how to get air, naval and ground commanders to function smoothly together. His was no divided command. He was the boss...