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Plight of the Occupation. Most American occupation families live in run-down Quonset communities that look like hobo camps. A few officers are quartered in small concrete houses (built with materials brought in from the U.S., at a cost of $40,000 apiece). The rest of Okinawa's garrison live in hovels. Complained one young officer: "You get tired after a while of nailing the same piece of tin onto your house, watching it blow off in the typhoon, and then nailing it back." It will take an estimated three years of building, and at least $75 million, before...
Paxton's chauffeurs managed, with wire and rope, to get the jeep to a mud-hut village. There the local garrison commander, who had taught himself English in order to listen to BBC broadcasts and read the Reader's Digest, put his men to work and all but rebuilt the jeep overnight...
...Back in Lisbon, Premier Salazar said: "It remains to be seen whether reason will be able to avoid violence and whether the path of respect, of rights and of conciliation of interests can be found." More than a month ago, Lisbon sent reinforcements to Governor Oliveira's garrison...
Before leaving, the garrison of 80,000 Nationalists blew up the Pearl River bridge, damaged the city's power plant, set fire to airfield installations. Then it broke into two fleeing parts. The bulk moved into the hinterland where the Reds had not yet penetrated. A smaller group headed toward the sea and ships that would carry them to Hainan and Formosa...
Most of the foreign diplomats still assigned to Nationalist China hurried from Canton to Hong Kong. The British crown colony alerted its 40,000-man garrison, waited nervously for the arrival of the new Red neighbors. Hong Kong authorities let it be known that they were eager to resume trade with and air service to Canton just as soon as its new Communist masters said the word...