Word: unite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Nations should have armadas of "national air force contingents . . . immediately available" to send against an aggressor. (The Administration reportedly will ask Congress to create a special air unit, which could be sent into action without Congressional approval...
...Basic unit schools, attached to battalions, will range from sixth grade through second-year college, with special primary classes for illiterates. The curriculum will include vocational courses in mechanical crafts, agriculture, business administration, etc. More than 1,200 such schools will be set up, each big enough to handle between...
...University study centers will be established in at least two cities to provide liberal arts and preprofessional courses not given in unit schools. For one center, the University of Paris has already turned over its Cité Universitaire, a foreign students' settlement with 25 buildings. Another will probably be in London. Some G.I.s also hoped for a chance to study at Oxford, where a few U.S. soldiers have taken Army-sponsored short courses while on duty in Britain...
Tito emerged from underground obscurity for a brief moment during Spain's Civil War. One fall day in 1936 a group of German International Brigaders drove a band of Moors through the village of Palacete near Madrid. In the village was a unit of Yugoslavs, nearly dead from exhaustion. For days they had been hold ing a gorge in rain, mud, under enemy fire. But when they were ordered to retire for rest, one protested bitterly. That one was Josip Broz. Soon afterward, he was among a hand-picked group of Communists withdrawn by the Red Army...
...hell on Palau for his ist Regiment-as hot a hell as Chesty has ever stepped into. Some 60% of his unit were casualties...