Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporter on the Hearst papers is not at liberty to attack Mr. Hearst or the Hearst policy. If he does, first, it doesn't get in the papers, and second, he is fired. Why then should the staff of a soldier publication feel that it is entitled to attack the War Department...
After a warming lunch (thick tenderloin steaks) and acceptance of a medal from Chicago's Mayor Kelly,* the President rode in an open car, its safety glass raised to full height, to Soldier Field. There, as his car edged around the arena, he returned beaming smiles for the cheers. But as he alighted at the north end of the amphitheater, somebody threw a tomato at the President of the U.S. If Harry Truman noticed it as it squashed on the cinder track he gave no sign...
...concept of aggressive war is a politician's concept, not a soldier's," he announced. "I did no more than write the Führer's orders and forward them...
MUNICH--Welfare agencies estimated today that 600 American-fathered, illegitimate babies would be born to frauleins in the Munich area by May 1, but Army officials ducked out of the matter by disclaiming any responsibility for the sex life of the U.S. soldier...
Died. Field Marshal Viscount Gort (John Standish Surtees Prendergast Ve-reker), 59, former Chief of the Imperial General Staff, commander of the ill-fated 1940 British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium; after an operation; in London. A wearer of the Old School. Tie but a tough professional soldier, he won the Victoria Cross in World War I for directing from a stretcher an attack across the Canal du Nord near Cambrai. In World War II he led the British in one of their finest hours (the heroic retreat from Dunkirk), held Malta through the racking bombing...