Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese soldier, when well-trained, well-fed and well-led, is as good as any, Bullitt reported. But, he said, many of the top-ranking officers are both incompetent and dishonest. Therefore, to turn the tide of the war in China, Bullitt said, requires American direction and control, exercised by "a fighting general of the highest qualities, with an adequate staff of able officers." He thought that General Douglas MacArthur could do the job quickest. But he also mentioned as prospects, General Mark W. Clark, and Lieut. Generals Albert C. Wedemeyer and J. Lawton Collins. He called for the revival...
...strain of revolution by talking of moderation. He hoped to allay the fears of capitalists and technicians, both Chinese and foreigners. New phrases which sounded like U.S. factory slogans urged workers to "study technique and raise production efficiency, cherish your implements and save raw materials." Said a Red soldier in Tsinan: "In the villages we have to eliminate feudalism and boost production, and in the cities we have to protect industry and commerce so that production may be increased." Within Communist ranks, leaders announced "self-examination conferences" for "correction of leftist tendencies...
Near Peiping, an American professor of English at Tsinghua University encountered a group of Communist soldiers while bicycling. "I am an American," he said. "We don't mind," one of the soldiers replied. "We understand not all Americans are against us." The soldier added with a grin: "We also understand Madame Chiang is not having much success...
...Little Rooster) is a story about a French Canadian soldier who, as a product of a foundling home, is acutely conscious of his bastardy. Fridolin takes the title role. He is onstage three-quarters of the time, plying his audience for laughs with Chaplinesque pantomimes of Tit-Coq's army life, playing for tears with sentimental references to his hero's illegitimacy...
...lectures-and got it back scrawled with screams ("no! no! no! no! no!"; "Do go to the root"). In Letter 15 Lawrence was more explicit. "You simply don't speak the truth . . . you are really the super-war-spirit . . . you want to jab and strike, like the soldier with the bayonet . . . You are simply full of repressed desires . . . As a woman said to me, who had been to one of your meetings: 'It seemed so strange, with his face looking so evil, to be talking about peace and love...