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Nothing happened. When Admiral William D. Leahy was appointed the President's personal Chief of Staff, the General called to pay his respects. That was General Hsiung's only contact with the Allied High Command. No invitation to sit in on the councils ever arrived...
Joseph Stalin sent a new Red Army into battle this winter. Moscow communiqués and dispatches, making this fact plain last week, also told more about the Red Army's command and methods than the outer world had ever known before...
Zhukov for Timoshenko. The vast reserves of men and weapons available for the Red Army's winter offensives (see p. 23) showed that the retreats of last summer and fall had been triumphs of military thrift. Stalin and the Red Army Command had sacrificed Russian cities, resources and territory rather than risk the Soviet reserves. But there was evidence that not all of the retreats were planned that...
...last week came news of the end of one of the most spectacular careers in the Army's history. Donald M. Keiser had died Dec. 11, "of natural causes," somewhere in Africa, where he was chief of staff of the Bomber Command in Major General Lewis H. Brereton's Middle East Air Force...
More serious is the thorny problem of air bases in Africa. Pan American's pioneering of these war-compelled African routes so alarmed British Overseas Airways that the Army's Air Transport Command has taken over. The question that needs answering soon is: at war's end, what is to become of these U.S.-built air bases on foreign soil? They represent great future air-caravan routes to rich new territory, and they cost a fortune. Who shall dictate how many, how often, and on what terms U.S., Brazilian, British, Dutch or Chinese planes shall use them...