ARMED FORCES: The Return of John X

In Antwerp's old Grand' Place one day last week, the U.S. Army held a solemn ceremony. It was to have been almost wholly American, but the people of Antwerp would not have it that way. Throughout the city, they draped their windows with U.S. flags. To the Grand' Place came more than 5,000 Belgians, many of them bearing chrysanthemums and laurel. For Antwerp, whose citizens had called it "the city of sudden death" during the long rain of German V-bombs, this was a day to say thanks and farewell.

In the center of the square was a flower-covered casket, in it...

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