Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bride-tall, graceful Princess Alexandra of Greece-arrived first: a flash of silken hose under a mink coat. Twenty minutes later came the bridegroom-slim, impulsive King Peter of Yugoslavia, in the light blue uniform of his air force. Other limousines brought the witnesses: Britain's George VI, the bridegroom's godfather, and Greece's George II, the bride's uncle. Among the guests: Britain's Queen Elizabeth, Norway's King Haakon, Holland's Queen Wilhelmina...
...This is where a bulldozer, digging into a pile of blackened earth, shattered timbers and twisted metal, rolls out the body of a Japanese soldier, recognizable only by the stained uniform...
...Atlanta Constitution) that the war would be over in two months. "I can't tell my reasons. I have them, of course. That's all I care to say on the subject." The World War I Peace-Shipper continued: "My message to young people, those in uniform and those out of uniform, is simply this: find out the cause of war. That will stop wars quicker than anything I know. I could tell them, but it doesn't seem to work that way, somehow. They must find out for themselves." Asked what he considered the greatest single...
...reason, Baldwin acknowledges, is the rapid expansion of our Army, which had to yank many young men from civilian life and thrust them into jobs for which they had no background. He lambastes enlisted men too-civilians put into uniform through no choice of their own, "too many of them with too little pride in that uniform, too many of them 'soft' and impatient of discipline and hardship...
...next Victory Concert will be Sunday at 1600. The featured singer will be Roland Hayes, tenor. Each man and woman in uniform is entitled to bring one guest...