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While the general and his men could claim to be the last openly functioning unit of Hitler's army, they grandiosely prefer to consider themselves the cadre of a future Russian army of liberation. All of them are White Russians. General Holmston was born Boris Smyslowski, near St. Petersburg, 55 years ago. He was a much-decorated Czarist lieutenant when he first started fighting the Reds in 1917. After the Bolsheviks won, he fled to Germany, adopted the name Von Regenau, and made a living as a timber inspector. In World War II, the Nazis sent...
...family, Kukes were rounded up in large numbers, marched to a barbed-wire camp for "screening," beaten and kicked (reliable witnesses say) en route, including women with babies strapped on their backs. The number of Kikuyu "shot trying to escape" has risen in remarkable fashion. One Kenya police reserve unit hauled in four Kikuyu men. The prisoners were taken away in a truck, but when the truck reached its destination, all four Kikuyu were dead. It was said that they had "tried to escape." None of the four was armed. Kikuyu (including at least one woman) have also been shot...
During the war, her husband went into uniform (he became a lieutenant colonel in the Army Air Force radio unit), and Ros was off on USO shows, telling jokes and singing Baby, That's a Wolf. In Washington, she met Mamie Eisenhower. They took an instant shine to each other: Mamie asked Ros to tea, and Ros asked Mamie to dinner. She did not meet the General until three years later...
Velde, 42, is a lawyer who worked his way through the University of Illinois law school in mid-Depression, repairing radios on the side to meet expenses. During the war he joined the FBI, was assigned to the important anti-sabotage unit which kept a watch on the Communist cell at the University of California's radiation laboratory in Berkeley, where basic research was under way on atomic fission. After the war, Velde went into Republican politics in Illinois' Tazewell County, was first elected to Congress in 1948. His FBI record helped his campaign...
Robert L. Jenkins '54, ROTC representative, announced the pledge figures for the three units. They are: Air Force, 281 pledges, or 62.8 percent of the unit; Navy, 211 pledges, or 68.5 percent of the unit; and Army, 157 pledges, or 58.8 percent of the unit...