Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifteen years have passed; little Cesariot is now old enough to become a soldier, and Panisse is on his death-bed. That is the way things are as Marcel Pagnol begins "Cesar," the last part of his celebrated French trilogy of the Marsailles waterfront folks. "Marius" and "Fanny," the other two films dealing with the people, were perhaps funnier, for "Cesar" is more concerned with plot and its happy ending...
Draftees strongly resented officer privileges, a band of research scientists has revealed. The group, which includes S. A. Stouffer, professor of Sociology, has just published "The American Soldier," an analysis of G.I's wartime gripes...
...American Soldier" was published by the Princeton University Press. Besides Stouffer, Edward A Suchman, Leland C. Devinney, Shirley A. Star, and Robin M. Williams, Jr. worked on the report for the Army. The work is in two big volumes...
Modest, homely Omar Bradley of Moberly, Mo., the Army's Chief of Staff, slipped on his steel-rimmed glasses in the Senate Caucus room last week and took a soldier's look at the North Atlantic Treaty. The diplomats and statesmen had argued out the legal niceties of the pact. Infantryman Bradley skipped the fine print and drove to the main point. In his mild, high-pitched voice, Bradley told the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee: "Our frontiers of collective defense lie in common with theirs [the other treaty nations'] in the heart of Europe...
...Soldier Bradley cut straight to the heart of the whole arms issue. Said he: "Plans for the common defense of the existing free world must provide for the security of Western Europe without abandoning these countries to the terrors of another enemy occupation. Only upon that premise can nations closest to the frontiers be expected to stake their fortunes with ours in the common defense...