Word: smedley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burned the bridges. A second was mounted with agonizing slowness and comic-opera disorganization. The 20.ooo-man force was a command nightmare, as seven nations (Japan. Britain, Russia. France, Italy, Austria, the U.S.) raced for glory. Nevertheless, the melee helped train such young military men as U.S. Marine Lieut. Smedley Butler, and British Naval Officers David Beatty and John Jellicoe. successively commanders in chief of the British fleet in World...
Died. Nobile Giacomo de Martino, 89, veteran Italian diplomat, who served as post-World War I Ambassador to Berlin, London, Tokyo and the U.S. (1925-32); in Rome. His forceful protest against a personal attack on Mussolini by Major General Smedley D. Butler, U.S.M.C. (who accused II Duce of running over a child, called him a "hit-and-run driver") resulted in an apology from Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson...
...GRACE SMEDLEY...
...have some significant things to report." Asked for specifics, Cohn said portentously that there were not enough copies of the American Legion Magazine in U.S. information libraries. (Later they announced that the libraries contained such magazines as the Nation and the New Republic* works by such authors as Agnes Smedley, Dashiell Hammett, Anna Louise Strong.) Then the pair flew off to Berlin for a quick look at the Soviet cultural center in the Russian zone. There wasn't time to inspect Berlin's American library, but in a refugee camp Cohn asked a recent trans-Curtain arrival...
...women connected with I.P.R. and involved by evidence in pro-Communist activities were out of reach (abroad, dead, in hiding, etc,) of subpoena. Included: Gunther Stein, Agnes Smedley, Andrew Roth...