Word: commandant
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...orders which-if an attack took place-might be forced out of Vichy under German pressure. Darlan might well have carried similar instructions, which would get him obedience from local authorities. Darlan got such obedience: the men of Vichy rallied at once to his call, placed themselves under his command. This was what the Allied forces needed...
Again, Unity of Command. Blame for the costly Solomons campaign, which he said was "not well organized and was not followed up at all," Congressman Maas fixed on the whipping boy called lack-of-unity-of-command. His criticism of the separation of the Ghormley (now Halsey) and MacArthur commands came just twelve days after General Marshall said that unity of command had been achieved. But Congressman Maas and General Marshall meant two different things...
...members are the Army's Marshall, the Navy's Admiral Ernest King, President Roosevelt's Admiral William D. Leahy and the Air Forces' Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold. General Marshall's point is that this board, with its British counterpart, achieves unity of command...
...Francisco: at the end of many a showing of Desperate Journey, cinemaudiences have endorsed Cinemactor Flynn with loud & long applause. Probably unnecessary, in fact, is Warner Bros.' already famed deletion-from the Desperate Journey trailer-of one line about Flynn and his RAFish companions: "They know but one command: Attack...
...flux? The critic traces Virginia Woolf's attempt at a solution, from her earliest novels, through her boldly experimental short stories, to the great achievements of her middle period, and the less successful attempts of her later years, which were carried off by sheer virtuosity in her command of language. He shows how she introduced the lyric element into the novel, turning from the epic style of earlier novelists to focus on the moment, on the unique personal experience. This experience is given added poignancy by her feeling that "personality . . . was a unity arising out of continual change...