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Dusting off some old notes before generals. I came across an almost verbatim episode of a radio series I followed each Wednesday night last summer. "He Walks Alone," the adventures of Bob Barkeley, was one of thase rare programs (less rare these days, I understand) that is not afraid to express a point of view--specifically, the American point of view--without mincing words. To me, "Communism" was just a strange foreign-sounding name in the newspapers until Bob Barkeley began to make the headlines come alive, the day's editorials sound wishy-washy. If this sample, which seems...
...Barkeley, as the title suggests, walks alone ("through a dense jungle of intrigue"). He masks his activities as an American undercover agent, or spy, with a job as crack reporter for Amalgamated Press, (this touch was rather a bold answer to Red charges last summer about William Oatis). As this episode opens, he is off to get a statement from General Wang Tai, head of the Nationalist, forces on Formosa ("All names and places are fictitious...
Meanwhile, General Hung Ho of the Nationalist headquarters talks nasally to a subordinate. "Comrade," he says, "if Bob Barkeley sends out Wang Tai's message to the American people, their legislature would have to take action. We would be ruined." The two conspirators decide to kidnap Wang. "In the confusion following his disappearance, we would be able to do . . . many things...
...airport in Formosa, Barkeley is met by his interpreter, a seductive half-caste named Rita Lo-yang. Without hesitation, the agent makes a heavy play for Rita; though for all he knows her father is Mao Tsetung. Rita, however, takes no advantage of his importunity; she refuses to skip a meeting of the General Staff to have dinner with...
...Meets Girl. No one then could have guessed the final destination of the 45th, least of all Private Bill Mauldin, who was spending more than his share of time on K.P. and dreaming of his cartoonist future. In 1941 the 45th was training at Texas' Camp Barkeley. One day Mauldin went in to nearby Abilene. It was raining. On a street corner, he met two girls and another boy. Mauldin knew one of the girls. The other was named Norma Jean Humphries; she was a student at Abilene's Hardin-Simmons University. Jean, now 21, remembers the scene...