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...peacetime draft law. Mother No. 2 should thank God that her little darling was born too late to fight in this war, and is only being asked to serve now, in perfect safety, to relieve a man who has, perhaps, already gone through months, or years, of hell...
...homes, burned the market, seized Frenchmen as hostages. On roads out of town, they ambushed every foreign party that came along. An American OSS officer, Lieut. Colonel A. Peter Dewey, was shot dead (the Annamites mistook his jeep for a French car), another U.S. officer was wounded in a hell-for-leather battle...
Their attitude toward civilians is: "Give us what we want and keep the hell out of our way." They brought fine weapons but few supplies, and they are living off the country. That probably stimulates the impression of widespread looting. Optimists say the Russians are rough because they don't intend to stay. Pessimists say the Americans will throw up the game and pull out, leaving all the Orient to the Russians...
...Come hell or high water, Perón was determined to be South America's strong man. He refused to believe that he had entered history a decade too late and in the wrong hemisphere...
...spoiled it was the natural color of the [painters'] hands and faces." he writes. "When I ... painted the hands and faces white also, that was even more disturbing." His final solution "was to leave out the hands and faces, and the painters, and there I was-abstract as hell...