Word: regimentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome in 1922 Vidali got away to Moscow, for three years of study. In 1926, as Emilio Sormenti, he turned up in the U.S. and in 1927 fled to avoid deportation. Ten years later, in the Spanish civil war, he was Carlos Contreras, commissar of the Fifth Loyalist Regiment. After Spain he was based in Mexico...
...quiet dignity and soldierly efficiency had made him a full colonel; eight years later, he got his first major command: a Harlem National Guard regiment. In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt appointed him brigadier general, the U.S. Army's first and only Negro general officer, and he took over the 4th Cavalry Brigade at Fort Riley, Kans. He was sent to Europe in 1942, won the Distinguished Service Medal for his work in inspecting Negro troops and easing explosive Army racial tensions. After the war he settled into the routine of peacetime Army life...
...China's economic life. Red General Chen Yi dashed from Shantung Province into the river valleys of neighboring Honan. Almost before Nationalists knew he was on the move, Chen's three columns converged on Honan's capital city of Kaifeng, garrisoned by a single government regiment...
Into Victoria Barracks at Beverley, Yorkshire, one day last week walked Walter Campbell, drummer of the East Yorkshire Regiment. He wanted to make sure of the medical benefits due all Britons under the new National Health Service Act, starting July 5. There was one difficulty. Drummer Campbell was a deserter, and had been since...
When Campbell chucked the regiment, Victoria had just celebrated her Golden Jubilee; Rudyard Kipling was writing about a legendary hero in the Burmese Wars ("He crucified noble, he sacrificed mean, he filled old ladies with kerosene"). But, as the Manchester Guardian straight-faced last week, "It was a time of uncertainty . . . One of these government commissions was talking of doing away with the good old scarlet uniform and replacing it with field grey or 'khokee.' Magazine rifles (far too complicated for active service) were being issued . . . Soon even the drum might be threatened. No wonder Drummer Campbell deserted...