Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Free elections in Korea supervised by a neutral country; a hands off policy for Chinese affairs, including Formosa; foregoing German rearmament and stationing a 20 division Angle-American garrison in France and the low countries, supported by French forces of equal strength were other recommendations urged in the telegram...
Night Attack. Up in the citadel the distant sound of mortar fire awakes the garrison commander. He snaps on a flashlight, hurriedly cranks the field telephone. But the duty officer can only guess from the direction of the noise that the attack is at Tanmai, a small fort west of Moncay manned by about 40 Vietnamese soldiers. Tanmai has no radio or telephone...
...mortar explosions come faster. Should Moncay garrison send out a relief column? Impossible! With one company away on an island-clearing operation, there's only one company of Legionnaires left to hold Moncay citadel, as the Viet Minh doubtless know. Towards morning the explosions stop. The air is warm and heavy and very still. The meteorological report forecasts a typhoon...
Backfire. Spanish Protestantism today, "like the church in the catacombs," says Garrison, "has turned its legal disabilities to good account and has reaped spiritual benefits from its material weakness...
Every Protestant pastor to whom Garrison talked told him of gains; e.g., one of Madrid's larger congregations reported its membership had tripled since the end of the civil war nearly twelve years ago. Church services everywhere seemed to be attended almost to capacity. One of the chief reasons for this growth, thinks Garrison, is that the government prohibition of church publicity makes laymen more zealous in bringing others into the church. "There isn't a preacher in America who wouldn't rather have his laymen . . . constantly cover the neighborhood with quiet personal invitations to church than...