Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the best of friends, Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and Mme. Chou En-lai-wife of Communist China's No. 1 negotiator-joined last week at Chungking's windy Paishihyi airfield to greet General George C. Marshall and his handsome, hazel-eyed wife, Katherine. Soldier-Diplomat Marshall, after a nightlong Peiping study of Manchuria's erupting war, was less impressed by tea-drinking at the top levels than by bullets in the boondocks...
What George Can't Do. If General Marshall looked ten years older on his return to China, as some observers thought, it was not from the shock of disillusion. The patient, war-seasoned soldier had again & again emphasized the real U.S. role in China-the establishment of a political and economic climate in which the Chinese themselves might attain unity and strength. In Chungking this week he was not surprised when each side assured him that the other had started the shooting...
There was still fear, despair and violent death in the land. At Wilmington, Mass., a 21-year-old ex-soldier killed himself by piping exhaust fumes into an automobile, saw fit to record his last sensations. "Joints feel funny," he scribbled. "Chest filling up fast . . . going...
...close look will show that the Army is an anachronism," he stated. An aristocratic officer clique, founded in the time of George Washington, he went on, is responsible for the cleavage between the professional soldier and civilian enlistee...
...blue-eyed, saber-trim soldier closed his home in Berkshire; then, in London, with the help of extra coupons from the Board of Trade, he bought all the extra clothes he would need. He called on Queen Mary, lunched with George VI and Queen Elizabeth, stood in the rain to review Canadian troops. He was honored at a Savoy dinner, saw a son through a siege of mumps. He said his formal farewell to Great Britain when, at a Guildhall ceremony, he was made a Freeman of the City of London...