Word: smedley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young correspondents handed their visiting cards (bearing the Chinese version of their names: Au Dung and Y Hsiao Wu) to U.S. missionaries and British diplomats, who received them kindly. They interviewed General von Falkenhausen (Chiang Kai-shek's German adviser at that time), histrionic U.S. Red Writer Agnes Smedley (China Fights Back), who thought they might be fascist plotters because they talked with von Falkenhausen. Madame Chiang Kaishek, with whom the poets took tea, was "for all her artificiality a great heroic figure," but the Generalissimo was "bald" and "mild-looking." We laughed as we pictured Chiang, Madame...
...general. Everywhere people opposed any war but sided with the Democracies if there must be one. Everywhere their belief that should Europe fight, the U. S. would be drawn in, was a fatalistic, unhappy, shoulder-shrugging belief. In few quarters was any one so cheerfully cynical as retired General Smedley D. ("Gimlet Eye") Butler of the U. S. Marines, who said at Albuquerque, N. Mex.: "After Italy and Germany get the swamps and deserts they're after, they'll all sit down and talk it over." Still fewer were as cheerfully bellicose as Sergeant Alvin C. York...
...Wesleyan College Conference on U. S. Foreign Policy, noisy, beak-nosed Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, exploded with a characteristic bit of Butlerese: "If there is another war I intend to make James Roosevelt go to the front line trenches. He is a lieutenant colonel in the Marines, and if his father starts up this war business I am going to see that he does. I am not afraid! Let them shoot me! I'm all through. Let's get shot here at home if we're going to be shot...
When it does come out his name will be listed in U. S. journalism's evanescent hall of fame-alongside those of Archibald T. Steele of the Chicago Daily News, Authors Anna Louise Strong. Agnes Smedley, and Captain Evans F. Carlson, retired U. S. Marine observer-as one who went through danger and discomfort to find the big story of Chinese operations deep in the interior behind Japanese front lines...
...remarkable document was in the tradition of Brigadier General William ("Billy") Mitchell, who kicked the complacency out of the air service; of the Marines' General Smedley Butler, Navy's Rear Admiral William Sims, Army's Major General Johnson Hagood, who brought on premature retirement by his reference to "WPA stage money...