Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Best Years. The week gave him other chances to be plain Harry Truman, the man who lived in Independence, Mo. before he lived in the White House. On Memorial Day. after placing a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, he slipped off for a family party on the presidential yacht Williamsburg. And at week's end he motored to Chestertown, Md. to receive another honorary LL.D. (his eighth) and to address the graduates of tiny, ancient Washington College...
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur last week announced that his occupation of Japan was cheaper in manpower than the occupation of any other area in the world. There was only one Allied soldier in Japan for every 400 Japanese. Highest ratio of groups to population is in the Russian zone of Austria...
...bigger cities, Ehrenburg had press conferences. As often as not, Ehrenburg asked most of the questions. His practiced polemics were a delight to polemical Sam Grafton but something of a puzzle to Southerners. His reply to questions about Soviet aggression was typical: "That is like asking a wounded soldier who has come home whom he intends to attack next." Initially the answer created sympathy; on second thought it seemed suspiciously oblique; on further thought it seemed to be no answer...
...study under Father Stock a prisoner must pass a simple screening: prove that he was a seminarian before he was a soldier. A single interview suffices. Seminarians are excused from regular P.W. labor in the fields, live in separate quarters. But their regimen is strict. Rising at a 6 a.m. bell, they pray and meditate until mass at 6:45, held in a plain, wooden structure decorated with murals by their...
...wrote with my own hand," recalls the ex-Secretary of the Navy, "the policy of the Department with reference to the safety of ships carrying troops to France'' in 1917. "And not one soldier was lost en route on our ships!" With his own hand, too, the Secretary saved his sailors from the sins of Chicago. "I took time out to investigate . . . and obtained from all the hotelkeepers in Chicago a promise to organize their employes in anti-liquor squads and see that rooms assigned to men in the service were not accessible to immoral women." With...