Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Chattanooga Choo-choo and Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer. Russia's strangest importation from the West was the U.S. Marines' Hymn, sung to the tune of Clementine (which might give the Russians a dangerously erroneous idea of the Leathernecks). Latest favorite: the American Soldier's Song, which most Russians believe is constantly crooned by G.I.s; it is a speeded up version of There Is a Tavern in the Town, in which the tavern has become the scene of tender leave-taking between a girl and a soldier...
Although the new assembly probably will give Inönä another term as president, a basic change has occurred in Turkish political life. Two national figures, Bayar and 70-year-old Marshal Fevsi Cakmak, Turkey's most respected soldier, attacked the Government bitterly during the campaign. Bayar and Cakmak demand increased liberties and social legislation, but support the Government policy of resistance to Russian territorial demands. Their showing in this week's election is expected to encourage other leaders of Inönä's People's Party to break away...
Last month, soldiers in the U.S. zone were booked for 32 assaults, five rapes, three disorderly conducts, and one housebreaking. Cracked an MP officer: "Now that we're getting quantity supplies of Coca-Cola, maybe our boys will get back to behaving." But most G.I.s in Austria already had passing marks for behavior; and many were living up to their orientation slogan, "Soldier, you are helping Austria." The first crop of Austrian babies fathered by helpful G.I.s is sizable...
...Quiet Life. It is doubtful if Salazar likes either the salute or the slogan. Unlike all other modern dictators, he hates parades, pomp or cheers. When he rides to ceremonies with President Carmona, the old soldier preens and beams; Salazar slinks back in the car, a scowl on his handsome face with the Savonarola-hard mouth. Asked why he refused to respond to cheers, Salazar gave a characteristic answer: "I could not flatter the people without being a traitor to my own conscience. Our regime is popular but it is not a government of the masses, being neither influenced...
...odds, this was the sharpest British journalistic swerve of the year. A sort of Churchill at the halfway mark (though at the opposite political pole), talented, ambitious Frank Owen had been a Liberal M.P. at 23, the socialist editor of the imperialist Evening Standard at 32, a soldier correspondent at 37. His latest professional hurdle took him from his prewar job with Lord Beaverbrook into the camp of the Beaver's keenest journalistic rival, Lord Rothermere. Some Tory friends of Rothermere's thought he was on a sticky wicket in hiring (for a reported $40,000 a year...