Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realize that Harold Stassen was no Wendell Willkie. Unlike Willkie, he was first & last a good party Republican. When he was misquoted three weeks ago as being ready to accept the vice-presidential nomination, he had actually said, with careful hedging, that he would be a good party soldier if he were beaten for the No. 1 spot...
...Soldier's Estimate. George C. Marshall, back from an education in Moscow, did not like the fire-alarm theory. He was telling his intimates in his soldier's way last week that the menace to Greece and Turkey was pretty much like the Battle of the Bulge. You had to rush up reinforcements (in this case $400 million) "to straighten the line, but you didn't sit down thereafter and wait for another bulge to happen. George Marshall was trying, like a good campaigner, to get the initiative...
...Persia's strong man, who made himself Shah of Shahs, began his career as a private soldier. His son is now Shah...
...father was a military scholar who organized militia for Sun Yat-sen and wrote A History of Chinese Tactics and Strategy of the Past Four Thousand Years. Because Tu was an only son, the old historian did not want him to be a soldier. But Tu ran away, entered Whampoa Military Academy, and graduated with the first class, in 1924. A vigorous sportsman in peacetime-he likes to hunt wild asses from horseback in the Gobi-Tu is also an accomplished paratrooper. He got his training from OSS experts training Commando troops in Kunming...
...Nicolas. Nicolas de Flue made no compromises with unrighteousness. He started out as a soldier, but quit when Swiss troops burned a convent in which the enemy had taken refuge. He became a judge, but quit again when he saw an innocent poor man, accused by a rich man, convicted. He became a peasant, working his farm to support his wife and ten children. But again, the call of God was too strong. He left his family and retired to a ravine, where for 20 years, it is said, he ate only the Sacrament and drank nothing...