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Cried Willkie: "Bring home General MacArthur. . . . Put him in supreme command of our armed forces, under the President." With the air of a man who has been groping for a word and hears it unexpectedly from a passerby, the U.S. echoed Willkie in the press, in Congress, on the street. But it was not simply a matter of putting an advertisement in the paper: "General MacArthur-please come home...
...comes here from Washington will . . . be convinced that the distance is too great, that communication is too difficult, and that the questions are often too peculiar to be dealt with by referring them back and forth. . . . There is needed in the Pacific Coast region not only unity of military command . . . but also a unity of civil authority . . . a governor general...
...suggestion that Admiral Tommy Hart, relieved last week of his command, had been made the victim of an "unfortunate deal," President Roosevelt gave an impatient answer. Said he: That is typical. (Typical, he meant, of the ugly hints and rumors of the day.) The Asiatic Fleet is still a unit, said the President, and Tommy Hart is still its Commander in Chief, though he is on his way home. To Navy men, this Alice-in-Wonderland situation made little sense-unless the President has other plans for Tommy Hart...
...British supremacy depends upon command of the world's strategic narrows and ports and deeps. Last week the command was challenged...
Many answer the call for blood donations, and a reasonable number of men are stationed in the control centers for the Air Raid control centers where reports are handled; some have volunteered as spotters reporting to the Interceptor Command...