Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swarthy, stocky Napoleon Zervas, soldier of fortune and Greek Minister of Public Order, charged that the Communists had a detailed plot, known by the code name "Plan F," for sabotage and seizure of Government posts. His predawn raids, said Zervas, had been in the nick of time. The plot had been timed to support Russia at the United Nations; there Russia's Andrei Gromyko last week opposed the U.S. plan to set up a permanent border commission to watch Greece's northern frontiers...
Marshal Henri Pétain of Verdun and Vichy, now serving a life term for collaborating with the Nazis, was reported looking poorly. But when a Chamber of Deputies committee tried to question the old soldier about his War II activities, he got his back up. "I know nothing," he gruffed. "I am 92 years old. If you want to question me on the war of 1914-18, I can answer you. I won that...
General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower hoped for a more modest memorial. Said he: "I would like to be remembered as the chief of staff who did something about the Army's cooking. Food is part of a soldier's pay and . . . none of his pay is going to be counterfeit...
Last week, Lieut. General Sir John Harding, British commander in Italy, commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. Cried Rome's newspaper Il Tempo: "General Oreste Bellomo [Italian commander of the Bari garrison during the war] was executed for having killed a British soldier. Human justice is very uncertain and frail...
...partition of India. They agreed on one major problem: partition of the Indian Army. In the first stage it will be split on the basis of religious communities, with Moslem-majority units going into the Pakistan forces, non-Moslem majority units into the Indian Army. Next April, each soldier will be allowed to transfer to the army of the state where his religion is predominant...