Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good soldier though he was, General Hagood had one serious defect as an officer: he did his own thinking. As long as he confined his originality to the Artillery, his superiors had no objections. After the war he wrote a book called The Service of Supply in which he minced no words, spared no names, and failed to ask the War Department's permission to publish it. The Inspector General called the volume "unmilitary in tone and tenor and at times intemperate in both. . . . Among the uninformed it will bring ridicule upon the War Department." Also unmilitary in tone...
Next obstacle to the Italians, towering 11,000-ft. Mount Alaji did not fall last week as Marshal Badoglio put every available soldier to working on roads and perfecting his service of supply for a fresh offensive. In Rome numerous Italian Senators heard the Papal Secretary of State, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, deliver an address which kept Fascists on pins & needles in their anxiety to hear that the Holy Father had at last come out wholeheartedly for Italy's war. They considered this to have come to pass when Cardinal Pacelli hailed Dictator Mussolini as "not only the Head...
...have complained of the difficulty of seeing what we of the fighting services have been doing all these past weeks. Now, gentlemen, you are to have the rare privilege of watching a battle, and it may prove to be a most important battle. From myself to the lowest soldier in my army, we are all ready to fight desperately. Every service has been fully prepared-food, water, munitions, animals and men-to give a smashing blow, a blow that you can follow with your own eyes. BUT, in return, you must observe strict discipline, you must consider yourselves...
...Brussels and was busy with my washing, I was told I was wanted at the French Embassy. I went just as I was, with a bundle of washing under my arm. When I arrived I found General Petain surrounded by staff officers. I handed my bundle to a soldier. Then I was taken out on parade, a battalion of French soldiers presented arms and General Petain pinned the Legion of Honor on my breast. It was a proud moment...
...Tottenham, England, Mayor E. A. Jay published the letter of an unnamed British soldier stationed on the lonely island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, asking for a wife who is "blonde, lively, a non-smoker about five feet three, not too plump." Of himself he mentioned only his hazel eyes. Mayor Jay got applications from 250 British women, forwarded them without comment to Mauritius...