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Seasoned soldiers, baaing like sheep, flatly refused to fight. At Soissons, the men of the 370th Infantry Regiment stormed the railway station, captured a train, and headed for Paris. A whole division was so rotten with mutiny that it was cajoled into holding against the Germans only by the hand-wringing eloquence of its commanding officer. By June 1917, out of some 100 infantry divisions, the French high command could count on fighting obedience from only...
French police pulled in a cloak-and-dagger suspect, a darkly handsome colonel who commanded the 5th Infantry Regiment in Blois, 100 miles from Paris, and -according to recently captured documents-passed military secrets to anti-De Gaulle activists. His name in the documents was "Ulrich." But Ulrich, now transferred to the security prison in Paris, turned out to be Henri Fournier-Foch, 50, grandson of heroic Marshal Foch, Allied Supreme Commander of World...
...second revolution was launch-almost immediately upon Castro's coming to power. Draper classifies it as a member of the Communist family of revolutions, since it turned against the middle class democrats who had overthrown Batista and began to regiment the proletariat and peasantry. It proceeded so far during Castro's first year in power that the Hubert Matos affair late in 1959 signaled the "point of no return...
...lovely daughter; a Japanese engineer; a Chinese 'Cliffie; an electric company meter-reader; a Negro house man and his lovely daughter (a Vassar graduate); Farr's latest mistress, her real lover--the list continues, and continues. Not content with saving a handful of people Wylie insists on a whole regiment. Indeed he has little choice: with so many themes to handle, he needs a wide variety of ministers to preach, and sinners to reform. He also needs time, so he keeps his actors underground for two years...
...full-page article in the old New York American, the noted photographer Alfred Stieglitz heralded the coming exhibition in phrases so extravagant that it hardly seemed possible that the show would live up to his claims. "This glorious affair," he wrote, "is coming off at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York. Don't miss it. If you still belong to the respectable old first primer class in art, you will see there stranger things than you ever dreamed were on land or sea-and you'll hear a battle cry of freedom without any soft pedal...