Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next four years the cold war would be Harry Truman's war. In all likelihood, Old Soldier George Marshall would not stay on to help him fight it. In his inherited term, Harry Truman, by painful experience, groping and pluck, had evolved a policy of containment and counterattack. In his new term, the man of 1948 would carry the full weight of driving that policy to a decision...
While keeping his bargaining position behind the defenses of the two cities, Soldier Fu showed clearly that he had taken the hint. Last week his troops handed over to the Communists the great industrial and trading center of Kalgan, with all its bulging warehouses and factories intact. No destruction of any kind was carried out. Explained General Fu blandly: "All supplies, factories and manufactured products there . . . are wealth of the people and the property of the nation...
...Soldier. When Jefferson Davis as Secretary of War organized the famous Second Cavalry Regiment (which produced twelve Confederate generals), Thomas was commissioned a major in the unit. At the beginning of the Civil War, all the elements of a personal tragedy were present in his situation: he was from the South and had principally served with Southerners; Virginia considered making him her chief of ordnance; Thomas had himself applied for the post of commandant of Virginia Military Institute a short time before...
...think it was quite so bad, although, like any neophyte author, he had a few doubts. In the New York Times Book Review he admitted that "I'm still not dead sure [it was worth bringing out]. I'm no critic. I've been a soldier all my life, and when you come down to it it's simply an old soldier's story...
Died. Weston B. ("Bert") Hall,* 62, colorful, Missouri-born flying soldier of fortune and a founder of the famed Lafayette Escadrille in World War I; of a heart attack; in Fremont, Ohio. In his 20 years as a mercenary, Hall flew for six nations but never for the U.S., in 1933 was jailed for 2½ years when as an adviser to the Chinese Nationalist air force (he called himself General Chan), he was convicted of taking off with...