Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yoshiko Kawashima said she was born a Manchu princess; she grew up to become a Japanese spy. In her career as the "Mata Hari of China," she posed variously as a Chinese soldier, a taxi driver, a Korean prostitute (Chinese officers always asked for Koreans, she explained), a schoolteacher...
Juenger envisaged a new world of anonymous, depersonalized robot-men immersed in the processes of technology and disciplined into grey armies of soldier-workers. In the age of the machine, individualism seemed to him a sentimental illusion, morality a superfluous gesture. All that counted in his nightmare world was steel: cold, powerful, implacable, featureless...
...horror in Jerusalem's Ben Yehuda Street (see cut), where an explosion had killed 54 Jews. The Arabs took the credit for setting off the blast, but the Jews preferred to believe that it had been the work of British troops. The wrecking of the train (whose soldier passengers could not possibly have had a part in the Ben Yehuda outrage) was a "reprisal...
...soldier's temper aroused, Marshall went on to discuss the plight of China's armies. Recalling his mission to China, Marshall said: "I told them that no operation could be successful until they first had trained troops and sent these troops to battle under competent leadership. There hasn't been any lack of advice. It's been continuous and emphatic and ignored!" He listed the military help the U.S. had already provided since the arms embargo was lifted last May: 130 million rounds of small arms ammunition, 150 C46 transports and 80 light combat planes...
...That You, Comrade?" As they rode through the gentle, starlit night, Major Ehrgott saw much to depress him: a soldier in the probing point of the column rode a highly visible white horse; there were no security guards riding on the flanks; officers smoked cigarettes, and the men talked loudly. It was a perfect setup for an ambush. But there were no ambushes...