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Rundstedt, the oldest, is also the best. Before the Nazis came to power, he was a stanch royalist, a faithful Hindenburg man. Now he is the Nazis' high priest of strategy. Belittlers of Chief of the High Command Wilhelm Keitel used to say that Keitel was such a coxcomb that he wouldn't even listen to Rundstedt. Rundstedt is easily the most experienced German commander. He alone of the present crop of generals was an Army Corps Chief of Staff in World War I. He will go down in German history as a hero because...
...saving of the Far East is another matter. In the Orient the U.S. is not an unarmed nation; its naval muscles command from Japan a respect which Hitler does not grant the U.S. military muscles. Toward Japan Welles has had a clear policy of distrust. But again he has been an "appeaser," because he has consistently favored trading with Japan until the U.S. is ready for any consequences. Last week he had come to the bottom of the diplomatic barrel. There were almost no diplomatic moves left unmade. The problem of the Japanese would sooner or later be turned over...
Early this week that outcome may have been foreshadowed by the German High Command-vastly more reliable than the official Nazi D.N.B. news agency-which claimed that the chief Russian forces in the center around Smolensk had been "destroyed." Russia admitted that a powerful German pincer thrust toward Kiev had reached Belaya Tserkov, 60 miles southwest of the city...
...criticism? After the speech, Sir John Waidlaw-Milne, Chairman of the House Committee on National Expenditure, insisted as he had before that Britain was working at only 75% efficiency. The press was largely skeptical. At week's end it seemed that, like Canute before him, Winston Churchill could not command the tide, that, unlike Canute, he hoped he could...
...overall operation (and with a view to independent action), the air arm is divided into Air Forces, four for the continental U.S., three others for the Caribbean, Hawaii and the Philippines. Included in each Air Force is an Interceptor Command (high-speed pursuit planes), plus bombers and reconnaissance organizations. The new Air Support Commands will be part of the four Air Forces in the continental U.S., whose areas are laid out to cover the same areas as the four field armies...