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...Cochran ably planned and executed the first night's glider-borne operation, fortified by loan of two of Brigadier General William D. Old's troop carrier squadron planes and pilots (American). Beginning D plus 1 night, General Old fired his American and British squadron planes into "Broadway" (code name for strip) at a rate that would have left the dispatcher at LaGuardia dizzy. I counted as many as ten transports circling simultaneously, waiting clearance to land...
...southern column captured the major airfield two miles south of the ene my base. While bearded, dirty shock troops cleared the field of obstacles, the code "cafeteria lunch" flashed to Mer rill's headquarters. By the time the field was cleared, the first gliders and transport planes arrived with fresh Chinese troops, piled in reinforcements to carry the battle northward through Myitkyina's back door...
...film is in violation of that provision of the Production Code of the Motion Picture Industry which reads : 'sex hygiene and venereal diseases are not subjects for motion pictures. . . .' " He also enclosed a rousing letter in which Bishop John F. O'Hara described the film as "insulting to Americans, dangerous to health, and definitely a menace to chastity, since it contains not one word of condemnation of the unchastity which is an even greater scourge than the disease it spreads...
...diseases is not only a moral problem, but also a very serious public health problem. As a citizen, concerned with public welfare, I take issue with the Legion's contention that un chastity is a greater scourge than venereal disease. . . . The protest [that the film violates the Production Code] is not valid. The Code does not and was never intended to apply to educational government films. . . . The film has not been withdrawn . . . a method ... to show it will be worked...
...turn from pre-invasion military chores, confer on French politics with General Joseph Pierre Koenig, doughty hero of Bir Hacheim and the De Gaulle Government's military envoy in London. At week's end a hitch occurred. The Committee protested against Britain's diplomatic-code ban, maintained that under pre-invasion restrictions of communications' and travel the conversations "cannot be usefully pursued...