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...have been following with a good deal of interest, not to say disgust, the hullabaloo raised over the action of Lieut. General Ben Lear, in disciplining a detachment under his command, for conduct unbecoming to men wearing the uniform of the U.S. Army (TIME, July...
...post is at once bigger and less big than most rumormongers hinted. Less big, because Colonel Donovan has no military rank (he insisted on taking over as a civilian), no command of the agents who hand him information. Bigger, because Colonel Donovan reports directly to the President, will have a look at every scrap of war information collected by Army & Navy Intelligence, the State Department, FBI, U.S. trade commissioners, food agents throughout the world...
This fierce hope is at the root of his present indecision. If the Russians are on their way to triumph by Sept. 1, John L. Lewis may attempt to return to command of C.I.O.'s masses; may tell the U.S. that the President has now been shown to be an untrustworthy leader; and insist that labor be given a greater voice in national affairs...
...Russians fail, Lewis may still try to seize command of the C.I.O. to try to unite labor in a demand for a constructive domestic program, and to force through a place for labor at the defense program's top. (He is completely contemptuous of OPM's Sidney Hillman...
...Into four major air commands went four new commanders, all younger than their predecessors. All have reputations for energy, skill in the air, sound sense. Youngest is 49-year-old Brigadier General William O. Ryan, a pursuit commander who was assigned to the Fourth Air Force (Riverside. Calif.). To the Army's youngest major general. 51-year-old Lewis Hyde Brereton (one of the few Army men whose careers began in the Navy) goes command of the Third Air Force at Tampa, Fla. To succeed Major General James E. Chaney, who is watching World War II in Great Britain...