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George Marshall could say that the Army was doing a good job of catching up with the Germans (in the new armored divisions, for instance). But catching up on old lessons will not be enough. The current, authoritative Command and General Staff School Military Review quoted an address to a Staff School class of Army officers: "It is not sufficient to pattern our doctrines, organization, training and tactics after those adopted by any other nation. We have to base our solution on our national characteristics, economic situation and on the principles of war, and doctrines that we have developed...
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., 53, fortnight ago laid down his civilian job (vice president of Doubleday Doran & Co.), put on his uniform as a reserve infantry colonel. He was ordered to Fort Devens, Mass., there last week won thumping recognition. He was made commanding officer of one of the Regular Army's crack regiments, the 26th Infantry* of the war-famed First Division. It was his second assignment to the same job, for in 1918, in the Argonne, Roosevelt was upped from battalion command to lead the 26th, stumped away from a hospital (he had been twice wounded...
Again Thermopylae. Last week the British acknowledged the spectacular fighting which had been done by Australians and New Zealanders in Greece by appointing as second in command in the entire Middle East the Australian commander, Lieut. General Sir Thomas Blarney. On the day of this honor, Sir Thomas' men were in a tight spot. They had carried out a magnificent withdrawal across the plains of Thessaly...
...A.I.F., then retired to versatile successes, as a police commissioner, businessman, radio commentator. One month before World War II broke out he bought a little seaside home, got married and prepared to go off into the wilds for a honeymoon. He never went. He was called up to command the entire Australian Infantry Force...
...simmer the crisis down. Mr. Menzies dictated and Mr. Fadden seconded a put-up-or-shut-up appeal to the Laborites to join up in the National Government. Then the Prime Minister saw to it that Australian Lieut. General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney was quickly upped to second-in-command in the Middle East under General Sir Archibald Wavell...