Word: troop
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Major General Edwin A. Walker, commander of the Army's 24th Infantry Division in Germany, came under fire both for speeches and for his troop education program. He labeled Harry Truman, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and former Secretary of State Dean Acheson as "definitely pink." Walker's "pro-blue" educational program boosted conservative candidates for office back home and brought on charges that Walker was dabbling in partisan politics. After he was admonished and reassigned to another command in Hawaii, Walker resigned from the Army. He found a champion in South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, himself...
Turning Point. It was to demonstrate that determination in the only language that Communism can understand that Kennedy ordered an armored U.S. troop convoy to travel the Autobahn from West Germany through East German territory to West Berlin. The journey made for some dramatic headlines, but its real significance was somehow diluted by the flood of international crises. Kennedy well recognized that if the convoy were stopped, the shooting might start. "Talking to Kennedy was like talking to a statue," recalls a White House aide. "There was the feeling that this mission could very well escalate into shooting before morning...
Simple Stone. That night, while Moscow slept, a motorcade of Jeeps, troop carriers and armored cars sped into floodlit Red Square and drew up before the massive red-and-black marble Mausoleum containing the mummified corpses of Lenin and Stalin.* As detachments of fur-capped policemen sealed off the approaches to the square, soldiers descended into the deep crypt, emerged bearing the rigid body of Stalin, clad in a generalissimo's uniform agleam with medals...
...long ago conceded the Oder-Neisse line, and France at best pays only lip service to German reunification. De Gaulle's emphasis is on the maintenance of present Allied rights in West Germany and Berlin. He stands staunch against any sort of disengagement in Central Europe. against German troop limitations, and recognition of East Germany...
...whole subject of European security. Although the Administration insists on maintaining the Allied rights of access to and presence in Berlin, and on guarantees for Berlin as a free and economically viable part of West Germany, it has not yet completely ruled out the possibilities of a fully inspected troop thin-out or some sort of non-nuclear zone...