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...Anderson, until recently chairman of the Advisory Committee on Atomic Energy, warned the House of Commons to plan now for civilian defense in an atomic war. Shop counters were piled high with oranges and lemons (the British had foresightedly cleared the bulk of the Palestine citrus crops before beginning troop withdrawals). Fruits and vegetables were arriving from South Africa. But the average Briton was still plagued with shortages. He was limited to a shillingsworth of meat (tuppence of it in corned beef), and fats and soap were hard to find. The current music-hall gag on the subject: "The soap...
Stilwell again & again refers to himself as a "deck hand." He liked to drop the more important and troublesome aspects of his mission and turn to the jobs he could do well: troop training and tactical command. He believed that the Chinese soldier could be made into a first-class fighting man, and he proved it with the units he trained at Ramgarh in India. Crawling through the mud of the North Burma offensive, Stilwell looked like the hero he was. Chennault says it all when he calls Stilwell "one of the best divisional commanders the United States ever produced...
Application on blanks may be obtained at the Student Council office in Phillips Brooks House or at 5 Bryant Street, and must be submitted by April 1, Richard said. Transportation has been arranged on former troop transports by the Travel Department of the Dutch National Union of Students...
...later, Major Ehrgott swung up on a borrowed horse and rode out of Komotini with 50 cavalrymen. Ehrgott, as the regulations require, was unarmed. His companions carried rifles, Bren guns and Tommy guns. Amazed inhabitants, unaccustomed to night activity by the garrison, hung out of their windows as the troop jostled...
Last week, Manhattan gallerygoers saw a series of 14 war paintings by Lawrence which were by far his best work yet. During the war he had been a petty officer in the Coast Guard aboard a troop transport, had used anything and everything he had seen as his subject: departure, return, alerts, men in bunks, cooks cooking ("The cooks might not like my paintings, but they appreciated that I was painting a cook"). The pictures he exhibited last week were patterned with the crude simplicity of a poster; his people angular, always distorted; his colors somber, often murky...