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...Navy's top command, with a few exceptions, exemplifies the insulation, compartmented authority, punctilio which make up "the military mind." One of the notable exceptions was onetime Chief of Naval Operations William Daniel Leahy, whom the President last week called in from Puerto Rico, reportedly to help coordinate the confused preliminaries to rearmament. The Army's George Marshall is also exceptional-a brilliant, flexible iconoclast whose war on mental dry rot has done much to stimulate and modernize the service. But even he must placate work with and through traditionalists who outnumber him. Last week the Army-Navy...
Democrats. Most Democratic hopefuls, numbed by the President's complete command of the 1940 nomination, contented themselves with bumbling. John Garner said nothing, mourned the ups & downs of Washington's ball club. Paul McNutt rolled back from a national tour still beating a lonesome drum. Jim Farley shook postmasters' hands. Burton K. Wheeler took a die-hard stand for Isolation. Cordell Hull, as usual, sawed wood...
Premier & Defense Minister Paul Reynaud last week told the French Senate and the world that an intellectual revolution had been wrought in the French High Command by Germany's super-Blitzkrieg. The leader of that revolution, tight-mouthed little Maxime Weygand, the new Allied Generalissimo, shot aloft in an airplane from Paris to inspect the churning inferno in Picardy and Flanders out of which he was supposed to bring order, safety, victory...
General Weygand, at 73, had taken on another job for France, a desperate job, a supreme job. The desperation of the job was that at the hour when Weygand assumed command, the scene for the greatest debacle in military history was already set. In Poland the Germans annihilated a huge but half-mobilized and poorly equipped Army. In Flanders last week they had cut off and all but surrounded 1,100,000 men thoroughly equipped and thoroughly prepared to fight, the flower of the Allied Armies...
...Certain persons have been firmly convinced that Germany intended to invade The Nether lands. ... It was learned today that the con servative Army high command flatly refused to countenance any such action...