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...authoritative hands, stopped all passing cars and took them to headquarters. More cops, with members of the National Revolutionary Movement, invaded the telephone exchange, seized a radio station, broadcast the premature news that the revolt was already successful. Government troops were confused, taken over by plotting officers. Only one regiment held out, in Calama Barracks, where it was soon reduced by mortar fire. Forty nine were killed and 120 wounded. Sporadic shooting continued for two days, but the revolution was practically won in the first hours...
...clothes at night. Churchill, who apparently realized how thoroughly the Russians were not amused by his "siren suit" at Moscow, wore the uniform of an R.A.F. air commodore, usually changed to dinner jacket at night. One evening he appeared as an honorary colonel of the Fourth Hussars, his old regiment. Stalin alternately wore two types of Marshal's uniforms, one in beige khaki, the other in slate-blue with white trouser-stripes...
Killed in Action. Colonel James Gardiner Conroy, 54, commander of the 16sth Infantry Regiment (New York's old "Fighting 69th"), peacetime National Guard officer. Brooklyn lawyer; during the assault against the Gilbert Islands; on Makin atoll...
...Chips's collar. Chips, ex-pet of Gail and Nancy Wren of Pleasantville, N.Y., a mean-looking mongrel with the head of a German shepherd and the body of a husky, casually wagged his tail. But things might have been different. When General "Ike" Eisenhower visited the regiment, Chips bit the Commander-in-Chief's hand...
...protect himself from another Moslem attack from Kansu, Sheng Shih-tsai invited the Russians to set up a Red Army garrison at Kami. A full regiment of Russian troops was stationed there-dressed not in Soviet uniform, but in the Chinese uniform. Russia was permitted to establish a trade agency called Sovintorg which monopolized all Sinkiang export trade. The newly built Turksib Railway exercised enormous economic force. Russians helped to lay out roads, planned irrigation projects, trained a provincial army, staffed provincial hospitals...