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...corresponds to our Victoria Cross. . . . M. Golovan came to the funeral of King George as a member of the delegation of this order, which comprised also a Rumanian general and two colonels. A sublieutenant in a Chasseur regiment during the War, he won the coveted honor by valor in the field. . . . "In October 1916, under fierce enemy fire he succeeded in cutting an Austrian barbed wire entanglement and led a storming party to the capture of an important ridge position. By this deed he not only gained the highest military order of his country but a claim...
...John was Wartime captain in the tank corps, received the Military Cross for valor in action. He helped Kermit Roosevelt form the Roosevelt Line in 1920, went to International Mercantile Marine in the I. M. M. Roosevelt merger...
...many associations of veterans. In contrast to other similar organizations, however, the Croix de Feu restricted its membership to a selected group of men, in that it not only required that its members had fought in the War, but also that they had gained a distinction for valor, symbolized by some medal or cross. Hence the designation of Croix de Feu, meaning a cross won under fire and not a "cross of fire" or "fiery cross" as sometimes rendered in English and U. S. newspapers. The declared aim of the Croix de Feu is to unite their members in disinterested...
Classic Japanese heroes are the famed Forty Seven Ronin who perished centuries ago but live in Japanese brains today as examples of furtive, desperate, suicidal valor. Last week the Chinese military commander of Hopei Province, General Shang Chen, charged that "modern Japanese ronin" are sneaking about in his province stirring up Chinese farmers to revolt...
...essence, this was the keynote of Britain's Victoria more than half a century ago. The great Queen, with her pride in British valor and her joy that backward peoples should have the benefit of British rule, has a superficially different but basically similar counterpart in the Dictator of 1935, with his rousing trumps to Fascist valor and his real conviction that Ethiopians are savages who can properly be brought under Italian rule...