Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sight of dark Moslem soldiers in their quiet streets last week bitterly reminded Germans of the Moroccans who took part in the 1919-30 occupation of the Rhineland (which Hitler called a plot against the purity of Germany), and of those who raped the Black Forest villages during World War II, finding their food and fun where they could. Some German women believe, whether or not it is true, that in those days one Moroccan raped a fraulein, then killed her by biting through her jugular vein. The French deny that Moroccans committed more rape than any other troops...
...readers in as many years. A pagan demiurge named Zorba goat-footed his Dionysian way through Zorba the Greek. In The Greek Passion, the peasant Manolios reenacted the Crucifixion as it might have happened in a 1920 Anatolian village. Captain Michales of Freedom or Death is a citizen soldier-patriot burning to set late 19th century Crete free from Turkish rule. These three heroes have nothing in common but the Kazantzakis touch-a gift for catching a man in mid-passion and life at full flood...
British-French colonial policies ... instead of taking an independent, clear-cut road, consistent with our own statements and principles." The U.S., said Van Fleet, had hurt itself seriously in Greece by appearing to support Britain and the status quo on Cyprus. Soldier Van Fleet saw no hope for a British policy of rule by force. No military base, no matter how powerful or well guarded, said he, is of much use if it stands "as an island surrounded by a hostile...
...Luis 27 noncommissioned officers routed out draftees for unscheduled "night maneuvers" that the government said were part of a plot with links to other provincial garrisons. Using information the noncoms spilled, police and loyal troops besieged the estate of a Peronista ex-Congressman, met brisk gunfire that killed one soldier before they arrested twelve plotters...
Bugles and a Tiger is a soldier's book, and anyone who scoffs at the soldier's trade will not appreciate its virtues. But after two World Wars and a "police action," there should be quite a few U.S. readers who will applaud the sometimes sentimental, consistently knowledgeable and colorful account of one man's devo tion to duty...