Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo headquarters, the 68-year-old Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers took a seasoned soldier's look at the Red tide now lapping down over his map of China. Last week he sent a 16-page radio report to Washington. Its heading was mild enough: "Strategic Implications of the Developments in China." But to the Joint Chiefs of Staff last week, the report was a stinger. Once again, Douglas MacArthur found himself in a potentially untenable position. And he was calling for help...
...despite the backaches he suffered, Old Soldier Marshall insisted upon postponing the surgery. He was afraid that it might affect the election, also he had a date at the United Nations meeting in Paris. Last week, home from Paris, he finally took time out for the doctors. At Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, they removed the kidney. Next day, he was sitting up, working in bed, hoping to be back at his desk in January...
...Understand." For two days of suspense, the Suchow commanders did not budge. Then the evacuation began. Along both sides of Suchow's main street -a broad expanse of cobblestones bisected by a barren dirt parkway-yellow-uniformed soldiers half enveloped in a thin cloud of dust tramped in an endless stream. At the end of each straggling company marched a soldier with a triangular red or blue pennant; at the rear, donkeys, loaded with heavy machine guns, plodded stiff-legged over the rough street. Trucks piled with bundles and crates swirled by. "So many troops," said a fat, black...
...open hatch of one plane, a man climbing up the ladder was blocked by another soldier. They wrestled at the hatch, lost their footing and thumped heavily to the ground. A C.N.A.C. ground crewman, a tall youngster in a black cap, screamed at the soldiers: "Stop! Stop! You are mad!" An angry red crawled up the taut vocal cords in his neck. "You are a disgrace, a disgrace to China!" Heedless, the soldiers stepped over their comrades still pummeling each other on the ground and jammed into the plane...
...Elected as new Council president white-haired Bishop John Samuel Stamm, 70, of the Evangelical United Brethren. Son of a lay preacher, jovial, ham-handed John Stamm grew up on a Kansas farm with an early hankering to be a soldier in the Spanish-American War (he was "just too young for the job"). As good an administrator as he is a preacher, President-elect Stamm has served as vice president of the Federal Council for the past two years, under the presidency of Layman Charles P. Taft. He doubts that his administration will "set the world on fire." Said...