Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northwest. Even Fu's military and political sense could not entirely offset the lack of prompt U.S. help. But Fu's appointment would be well regarded even by one of China's sternest critics. U.S. Secretary of State Marshall had said: "Fu is a real soldier . . . when he says he can do something, I believe him." Last week Fu said: "We will move quickly, keep active on all fronts...
...campesino's resistance to the anti-aftosa cattle slaughter had been tragically bitter. A veterinarian and his seven-man soldier escort had been murdered in Senguio; bands of armed men, threatening violence to cattle-shooters, roamed the states of Guerrero, Michoacán and Zacatecas. Only last week, sanitation workers who had come to disinfect a village in the state of Querètaro were driven out with cries of: "You've killed our cattle, now you can't kill our children...
High-minded José de San Martín, the good soldier who liberated Argentina and Chile (with the aid of Bernardo O'Higgins) from the yoke of Spain, died 97 years ago in poverty and self-imposed exile. Argentines have been trying to make up for it ever since; equestrian statues of him stand in almost every plaza. In 1880 his body was brought back from France, where he had gone in bitter disillusionment over political wrangling, and entombed in Buenos Aires Cathedral. From Spain last week, in two finely worked caskets, came the bones of his father...
Said Bradley to Hawley: "As a doctor, soldier and administrator, you have served your country and your fellow men well...
...department's eight-column story on the life & works of David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter-soldier-politician, in the Nov. 10 issue is, to a large extent, the result of a year's acquaintanceship between Artist Siqueiros and John Stanton, chief of TIME Inc.'s Mexico City bureau. Because the detail and sound analysis of Stanton's research also showed a warm understanding of Mexican ways, I asked him to tell me about the business of being a correspondent in Mexico as it applied to the Siqueiros story. This is his reply...