The American Legion Magazine [Volume 83, No. 4 (October 1967)]

The Congo -Seven Bloody Years: A Review that Assembles the Chaos in the Congo into Something Like Order, as a New Chapter Unfolds with the Kidnapping and Imprisonment in Algeria of Onetime Congo Leader Moise Tshombe by Peter D. Bolter -- Harpers Ferry -Where John Brown Raged: A Travel Article for Today's Motorists About the Historic West Virginia Town, Scene of Abolitionist Brown's Raid in 1859 and Important Civil War Hub. Thirty-Eight in the Series "Seeing Historic America" by Alden Stevens -- Idaho's World Scout Jamboree: A Spread of Color Photos of the Scene at the Old WW2 Navy Boot Camp in Farragut, Idaho, When Boy Scouts from 106 Nations Met There in August a Staff Photo Report -- The National Commander of the American Legion: An Introduction to William E. Galbraith, of Beemer, Nebraska, Who Was Elected in Boston to Be the 1967-68 National Commander of the American Legion by R. B. Pitkin -- How We Made an Army Out of Nothing in WWI (a WW1 50th Anniversary Feature): There Wasn't Even an Organized Division in the U.S. Army When Congress Declared War on Imperial Germany in April 1917. Here's How We Scrambled to Make a Fighting Force from Scratch by Lynwood Mark Rhodes -- A Report from Boston, Mass.: Sixteen Pages of Test and Photos of the American Legion's 49th Annual National Convention in Boston, Aug. 26-31 -- Editor's Corner -- Letters to the Editor -- Personal -- Dateline Washington -- Legion Shopper -- Parting Shots