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Always there were long, blue, green and pink reports from the Combined Chiefs of Staff?the Allies' nearest equivalent of a global command, which General Marshall was principally responsible for organizing last February. Usually these reports were from Britain's Sir John Dill or his subordinates, or from the U.S. Navy's Admiral Ernest Joseph King, if some matter touching the interlocked U.S. and British navies had come up. If there were references to the Russians or the Chinese, who consult only the C.C.S., they usually came through U.S. or British channels...
Global Head? Once each week he meets with the Army War Council: Stimson, Arnold, McNarney, Assistant Secretaries Robert Abercrombie Lovett (Air) and John J. McCloy (general utility), and able Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, Chief of the Army's Ground Forces, who has the biggest direct command in the service. At these conferences, General Marshall does not have to consult world maps. He carries his war map in his head...
...army unique in U.S. history. Its booted paratroops, glider squadrons, armored army-within-an-army, are new on the U.S. scene (and newer, perhaps, than they need have been if the Army's pre-1940 command had not been approximately as sleepy as the country was). It is an army created with phenomenal speed from the embryo Regular Army...
...vision of 'the century of the common man' in even so modest a degree as is implied in the establishment of complete equality, of educational opportunity, of the career open to talent, of easy promotion in all walks of life from the ranks to positions of command? Victory depends on our offering the martyred nations of Europe a' cause for which to fight and die. Are we still too besotted by our terror of revolution to speak plainly the words that would convince the peoples and not merely the Governments that our struggle is theirs? Such questions...
Seven Navy air captains were nominated last week for rear admirals' flags and the right to command capital-ship task forces. This is a job few air admirals have performed, although most World War II sea battles have been air-dominated. The new admirals...