Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan he was enthusiastic. Baldwin, who for 30 years has defended the rights off revolutionaries of all shades, called Soldier MacArthur's occupation of Japan "the greatest revolution I have ever seen." About Korea he was much less hopeful. There, a lack of U.S. policy, an inept military government and factionalism among Korean politicians has produced a "reign of terror." Japan, the former enemy, was like a "liberated country," while Korea had all the earmarks of a conquered country...
...British war crimes court sentenced him to death for the reprisal killings by German troops of 1,413 Italian civilians, Kesselring did not deny his responsibility (TIME, May 19). "If there is any guilt," he said stoutly, "it is mine and mine alone." To his defense came distinguished British soldiers. Said Lieut. General Sir Oliver Leese, who commanded the British forces opposite Kesselring : "He was a gallant soldier who fought well and squarely. If things had gone the other way, the man sentenced to death might have been...
...soldier spot a Red? The Army's way: "If a person consistently echoes the Party Line, he is probably a Communist. If he has consistently agreed with every shift and change in the Communist press, he is probably a Communist. If a person consistently supports Soviet policies, he is probably a Communist. If a person consistently practices all of the above, he is a Communist...
Died. Colonel John Henry Patterson, 79, zealous, Irish-born Protestant who became a Zionist leader; in Los Angeles. Famed as soldier and big-game hunter, Colonel Patterson commanded the British Army's World War I Jewish Legion, enjoyed the esteem of Fellow Hunter Teddy Roosevelt...
...accounts of World War II are seared with so much brutality and suffering, or depict more starkly the sullen impact of war on the common soldier. Writes Matthews: "Perhaps somewhere on somebody's map the actions of our company made a pretty pattern against the whole picture, but what the readers of those maps probably didn't know was that it was a pretty pattern of desperate little confusions." On Iwo, the "desperate little confusions" prodded many a marine into heroism, many more into death. Author Matthews sums up: "It was easier to go forward than...