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...said that large numbers had been "re-educated" and had voluntarily joined the Communist forces. Their reluctance to go home, the Red negotiators implied, should be respected. But last week they insisted that Red prisoners in Allied hands should all be repatriated, whether they wanted to be or not. Rear Admiral Ruthven Libby scathingly pointed out the discrepancy...
Both sides made pretty speeches. In Majorca, Rear Admiral William S. Parsons announced: "The two most anti-Communist nations in Europe today are Turkey and Spain." Said pudgy Mayor Antonio Simarro of Barcelona, with a beaming smile: "We are looking forward to our future alliance...
Oldtime Airman Bert Acosta, 57, headliner of the '20s, turned up in a Manhattan restaurant, down on his luck and ill with tuberculosis. Whisked off to a hospital, he got a get-well letter from Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard E. Byrd, who flew across the Atlantic after Charles A. Lindbergh in 1927, with Bernt Balchen (now an Air Force colonel) and Acosta as copilots...
...wintry Panmunjom one day last week, a thin, precise man stepped out of a helicopter, tucked his brown briefcase under his arm and strode purposefully toward the conference tents. He was Rear Admiral Ruthven Libby, commander of U.S. Cruiser Division 3, who has been detached for temporary duty as a U.N. delegate to the truce conference. The admiral wore a plain Navy overcoat without stripes or shoulder boards; only his gold-braided cap marked him as a naval officer. Said a British newsman who was watching the scene: "If you switched that cap of Libby's for a Homburg...
When the University of South Carolina got a new president in 1944, alumni protested, facultymen seethed, and a group of students promptly burned him in effigy. It was not that they had anything personal against Rear Admiral Norman Murray Smith, U.S.N. (ret.). It just happened that his brother was one of the most powerful men in the legislature, and so the appointment smacked of politics...