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...happy housewife, cooking and sewing for her R.A.F. squadron-leader husband and her 14-year-old daughter in her country home in Hertfordshire, first to plain volunteer, then to Chief A.T.S. Recruiter, then to idea-woman, inspecting camps, grooming lady officers, clearing up gaffs such as the male Army command referring to A.T.S. passes: "Members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service will show their pink forms whenever called upon to do so." Last week, as Chief Controller, she became Britain's top-ranking...
...first of these was Au Fil de l'Epée (translated as The Philosophy of Command), which advocated individual initiative on the part of commanders instead of the traditional French system of fighting according to plan. Vers l'Armée de Métier (The Army of the Future) went even further in breaking with French tradition...
...after the Germans broke through at Sedan De Gaulle was made a general in command of a hastily assembled armored division. He held up the Germans for four days at Laon, fought fiercely at Abbeville (and it was there that his men first called him Le Général). After that Premier Paul Reynaud made him Under Secretary of State for Defense. General de Gaulle helped to persuade Premier Reynaud to continue the war-against the arguments for armistice of Weygand, Pétain and others-and he flew to London to tell Winston Churchill that France would...
...Franklin Roosevelt issued an order that threw Douglas MacArthur's new-trained and untried Philippine Army, reputedly of 150,000 officers and men, into the U.S. Army. A supplemental order also put Douglas MacArthur, once the youngest (50) Chief of Staff the U.S. Army ever had, in command of the whole works-Philippine Army, U.S. regulars and Philippine Scouts, the Army's Philippine Air Force...
There have been especially heavy increases in air power, under the command of cyclonic Brigadier General Henry Black Clagett, who entered West Point (1902), when Douglas MacArthur was a first classman and who, like MacArthur, is impatient of sloppy soldiering, a stern disciplinarian. Henry Clagett's immediate superior and MacArthur's No. 1 man is leather-dimpled Major General George Grunert, in command of the Philippine regulars for the past year...