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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...device was permissible, and he asked, in effect, how its use differed from the employment of outranging naval guns. Missiles from such ordnance, he told D. H. Hill, had been 'bursting with awful noise and scattering their death-dealing fragments among the innocent and unoffending, fiendish acts unknown among civilized nations, reversing the scriptural text that it is better for 99 guilty persons to escape than for one innocent to suffer.' As this analogy was not allowed, a suggestion previously made by the Secretary of War was adopted. Under orders of June 18, Rains was assigned...
...Shepheard's Hotel. Few people noticed the man who had come from England to boss the demoralized Eighth Army. He had been second choice for the job, after the death of Lieut. General William Henry Ewart ("Strafer") Gott. Outside military circles, the scrawny, gimlet-eyed little man was unknown...
Within a few days Timar is happily forgetful of his job, drinking heavily, scorning Adèle's obese, mouching husband. And then comes sudden death-to Adऑe's husband by fever, to a Negro waiter by an unknown hand. Adèle is calm as ever, boxes up her husband without a tear and persuades the infatuated Timar to use his uncle's influence to get them a partnership trading concession in the back country...
...fight fear with work; 2) keep in sight of other men-just the presence of others minimizes fear; 3) call the roil to reassure the soldier that others are doing their part; 4) keep men informed of what is going on-"the known is never so fearful as the unknown"; 5) control the signs of fear; panicky men must be removed from the sight of others; 6) even statistics help-"the chances that any one man will be among those mortally wounded in any one battle are small...
...Army of 5,000,000 has less than 1,000 doctors (the U.S. aim is to have six and a half doctors for every 1,000 troops). Chinese soldiers are universally infested with lice, making them ready prey to typhus. Modern methods of camp sanitation are almost unknown. For every man wounded or killed, ten die of disease. (In the U.S. World War I army, only one died of disease for every 14 wounded or killed...