Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese soldier, when well-trained, well-fed and well-led, is as good as any, Bullitt reported. But, he said, many of the top-ranking officers are both incompetent and dishonest. Therefore, to turn the tide of the war in China, Bullitt said, requires American direction and control, exercised by "a fighting general of the highest qualities, with an adequate staff of able officers." He thought that General Douglas MacArthur could do the job quickest. But he also mentioned as prospects, General Mark W. Clark, and Lieut. Generals Albert C. Wedemeyer and J. Lawton Collins. He called for the revival...
...casualties (including 700 prisoners) and the loss of almost all their remaining toeholds in Palestine. Faluja, the one Egyptian pocket left within Israeli-held territory, had become a joke in Tel Aviv. Cracked cocky Israelis (who were being pressed for higher taxes and war loan contributions) : "We must turn the conduct of the war over to Finance Minister Kaplan-he knows how to empty pockets...
Campbell's hobby is cooking (he is reputedly able to turn Britain's austerity rations into tasty dishes). His professional obsession is interservice cooperation. Says Campbell: "Duplication of effort means jealousies and diversion of effort. Canada is just not big enough to take it." Privately, to the horror of all good navy men, he has urged putting all three services into the same uniform...
...propaganda, Lysenkoism is promising. The so-called backward peoples of the world, to whom Communists are making an intense appeal, may like the suggestion that a better environment (provided, of course, by Communism) can turn their children, in one generation's time, into superiors of the strutting white men who have ruled them for centuries past...
Decision by the Radcliffe Student Council on whether student political groups with left-wing affiliations should turn in complete membership lists to the Dean's Office was postponed yesterday until Monday's Council meeting...