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...Army) said this week that during the last three or four months of the draftees' twelve months' training, the Army will select promising officer material from among the trainees and put them in special candidates' schools where they will be given specialized schooling as officers of the combat arms. Successful graduates of these school will be given commissions in the Officers' Reserve Corps...
...should appreciate that we are a newly assembled combat Army. ... All walks of American life are represented. These conditions present individual and group problems [which] . . . should be solved in our American way. ... A competitive system should be devised to bring to the front individuals who have . . . leadership superiority. Demonstrated individual worth, especially leadership, should be given greater consideration than longevity and seniority of service...
This week Am Ex officials plotted new ways to combat Pan Am, hoped for CAB action on the TACA purchase within about a week. Am Ex has the tacit backing of the U. S. War, Navy and State Departments. Pan Am has vast resources, an experienced Washington lobby and the knowledge that TACA's Guatemalan rights, core of the line, will expire next February-unless General Ubico renews them...
...becoming war conscious. Neither at that time nor in retrospect did it seem to me an edifying spectacle. The professors acted as recruiting officers and students marched off to war; for the most part their erstwhile instructors were not able either to lead or to follow them into the combat area. The cheering, however, was vociferous...
Fastest conveyances of the 1940 Marines will be six Navy "four-piper" destroyers, refitted to crowd 200 men below decks for a run at 30 knots. This fleet will transport a force closely patterned on the German combat teams-1,000-1,200 men with rapid-fire infantry weapons, artillery, tanks, engineer equipment. If trouble starts in the Caribbean, the Marines hope to get there first with the most firepower, have the situation well in hand...