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...burning Hopkins mind, the President found a quality and a kinship which he found in no other human being. Alone among the men around The Man, Harry Hopkins can (but does not) boast that he is both trusted and used without stint. His latest use: to supplant Jim Farley, command the axmen realigning the Democratic Party for the Third Term campaign and thereafter...
...that had been sent around that way because the British had mined St. George's Channel between Eire and Wales. Messerschmitt fighters accompanying Nazi bombers to Britain started carrying one medium-sized bomb apiece. Everything that flew over Britain now had something to leave there. The Nazi High Command claimed that its submarines, motor torpedo boats, bombers sank more than 200,000 tons of British ships during the week, including the destroyers Brazen and Wren (both admitted...
...generals in other countries were surprised at Sir Alan's appointment as Britain's land-defense chief, British generals understood. He is no scintillating genius, but the job he did, in one week, of whipping together the Southern command out of tens of thousands of exhausted men who were landed back in England, scattered at different ports, when Germany was expected to follow them across the Channel at any moment, was called "the major feat of organization in British Army history...
...Alan's chief reputation rests on his skill in artillery. But he has served in the cavalry, commanded infantry, and two jobs that he performed just before the war made him the best-posted, all-around officer Britain has. The first was Commander of the Mobile Division in 1937-38. Just when he had mastered tank, antitank and armored car technique, for which he had great enthusiasm, War Secretary Hore-Belisha switched him into the Anti-Aircraft Corps Command. He found it a scratch bunch of guns without instruments, searchlights or coordination. In a year he smoothed and built...
...genius since Stonewall Jackson. Modest George Marshall has been trying to forget this heavy praise ever since. But General Bell was not alone in his high opinion. Able, erratic, spectacular General Johnson Hagood once wrote, on a Marshall efficiency report: "This officer [then a lieutenant] is well qualified to command a division with the rank of major general, in time of war, and I would like very much to serve under his command." "Black Jack" Pershing, asked who was the best soldier in the Army, replied, "Colonel Marshall, of course...