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...shots shattered Inglewood's tense morning. Most serious casualty was one picket, who was reported cut by a bayonet. A few hours after two battalions of troops had taken over, workers were streaming through the gates, and Lieut. Colonel Charles E. Branshaw, in command, announced that the tie-up was over. Some 2,000 workers, about one-quarter normal complement for the shift, were back inside, limited production had been resumed. Unless there was a new outburst, North American would soon be back at top-speed operation...
...Staff was to direct the work of whipping the Army into fighting shape, to plan field exercises, to keep eyes peeled for new training methods, stupid officers, backward outfits. By October, Artilleryman McNair, recent head of the Army's Command and General Staff School, had his staff clicking, had the field forces of the U.S. molded into four field armies, nine tactical corps, Armored Force, Coast Artillery districts...
...invade Syria with the forces available from the Middle East Command-in face of the Nazis' well-proved winged might-was risk enough. There was the added risk that the invasion would give the Germans an argument to force Vichy to send the remains of the French Fleet against the British. But to let Syria fall into the Nazis' lap without a struggle would have been a strategic and political disaster for which the Churchill Government dared not take responsibility. This time the British effort might again be too little, but at least it would...
...Command. On July 7 this sputtering, sprawling War in China will be four years old. Four years of war have hurt China a lot, but have also taught China a lot. The most spectacular discovery, for a nation in which military leadership has classically been an affair of coin and cunning rather than martial skill, has been that China could turn out first-class officer talent...
...they superimpose upon this framework of discipline a gentle mysticism which officers almost nowhere else do. Chen Cheng's Sixth War Area second-in-command sometimes stands on a hill in the moonlight with visitors and recites the liquid verses of the early 8th-Century Poet Li Po. A general commanding one of the crucial fortifications of the Gorges paints delicate drawings of birds and flowers...