Word: valour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NEXT TO VALOUR-John Jennings -Macmillan...
...order issued to his troops before Quebec in 1759, Brigadier General James Wolfe wrote: "Next to valour, the best qualities in a military man are vigilance and caution." Thereupon, exercising vigilance and caution in sending his men up the heights of Quebec, Wolfe valorously engaged General Montcalm's French forces on the Plains of Abraham, routed them. The 13 years of American history which preceded this battle, in the French and Indian Wars, are the stuff of which Next to Valour is made. Its author, John Jennings, 33, began doing research on the period in 1935, in the belief...
...course the usual tales of the valour of the national defenders find their way into the newspapers day after day. Some of these undoubtedly are true, but others simply surpass belief. The prize one so far is this which appeared in the Japan Times. A party of Japanese soldiers were out on scouting duty, when they observed a much larger party of Chinese, apparently bent on the same mission, approaching them. Concealing themselves, the party of eleven Japanese waited until the right moment came, then rushed forth and threw themselves upon the Chinese, engaging them in hand-to-hand conflict...
...clock Josef Hano, Czechoslovakian Consul, New York, speaks on "The Struggle for Influence in the Danubian Basin: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Jugoslavia and Rumania." This will be followed at 3:30 by an address on the "Political and Economic Scene in France," by Professor Robert Valour of Lyons, France, now lecturing at Columbia University. Sir Arthur Willert, head of the publicity department of the British Foreign Office, 1920-1935, speaks Wednesday evening at 8:15 on "England and the European Crisis...
...varying sizes, shapes, shades and significance are the medals with which nations honor their military heroes, living and dead. No. 1 Medal of the British Empire is the bronze, red-ribboned Victoria Cross, bearing the Royal Crest and the inscription FOR VALOUR. Since the close of the Crimean War in 1856, 1,155 persons have won it "for some signal act of valour or devotion . . . in the presence of the enemy." During the World War, when other medals were being passed out with feverish generosity, the V.C. went to only 633 fighters, proudly maintained its high prestige...