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...rumpled, bulky, droop-mustached man stood beside the white dazzle of the Unknown Soldier's marble tomb in Arlington Cemetery. He too had been a soldier-Sergeant Alvin C. York, the Tennessee mountaineer who, 23 years ago, singlehanded, disabled a German machine-gun battery and with seven privates killed or captured 152 of its defenders. He spoke: "Liberty is not merely something the veterans inherited. Liberty is something they fought to keep...
...overage and a lot overweight had volunteered as a parachutist, had been killed; the Germans replied that he was ill of a "tropical disease" in an Air Force hospital and quoted him ironically: "Many of the Tommies showed true soldierly spirit even toward their German prisoners. A British Army sergeant captured by us promptly assisted us in treating our wounded." As a sort of reprisal the Germans announced that Major General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, commander of Crete's defenses, had been killed while "cravenly" attempting to flee Crete in a plane; the British denied...
...last month an anteater, a monkey and the editor of the News occupied the same office. This cozy spectacle did not confuse readers who dropped into the News office at Quarry Heights, the U.S. Army's headquarters in the Panama Canal Zone. Old friends of the editor, Master Sergeant Clay Doster, had no trouble whatever in identifying...
Long used to handling Army publicity in the U.S., Sergeant Doster got out the first issue of the News last summer. Since then it has grown from 250 copies of eight pages, to a weekly circulation of 6,247 and 40 pages. In addition to the jungle outposts of the Panama Coast Artillery Command, the News also has a booming circulation in other Army outfits and among families and friends of Panama Coast Artillerymen. Subscribers, paying 25? to 50? per month, bought enough copies in April to give the News a net profit of $820 (which went into the soldiers...
Cardinal point of Hauser's study is the split personality of the Japanese. At home he is "serene and tender," is so hypersensitive he requires vases of flowers in his subway trains; in uniform he is "as ruthless as the Prussian sergeant" and is capable of such atrocities as the Rape of Nanking. In explaining him Hauser eschews Freud for Cervantes: he is "a frustrated knight whose quixotic sense of chivalry makes him fight windmills and cut his belly if he is defeated." Thus millions of Japanese have been convinced of the sanctity of their service to China, have...