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...only member widely familiar in the U.S. is Fernand de Brinon, recently Vichy's agent in Paris). Laval himself is Chief of Government, holds the portfolios of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Information. Former Vice Premier Admiral Darlan has been given command of all Vichy's armed forces and made an Admiral of the Fleet for life...
...them raw recruits; 500 men of the prospective crew, unfamiliar with the ship, 1,750 employes of Robins, "of whom 50 were untrained men designated as 'fire watchers'"; 675 employes of subcontractors, all under various straw bosses, foremen, superintendents, officers. No one was in over-all command...
...most serious confusion was among high-ranking officers in the pier shed: handsome, urbane Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, Commandant of the District (since transferred to command of the Eastern Sea Frontier), the captain of the port, Coast Guard officers, the district material officer. Said the report: "The Commandant did not consider himself either in charge ... or to be the responsible naval officer present. He considered the Normandie to be under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Ships and of the district material officer. . . . He considered the fire department to be in charge of the fire." He considered himself merely...
...long struggle for wartime power in Washington, a team finally emerged last week to take command of U.S. economic warfare over the world: Vice President Henry Agard Wallace and his right-hand man Milo Perkins. Their Board of Economic Warfare was nine months old; but the power given them by the President and the importance of their seats in his cut-down War Cabinet were not only...
Corregidor can and will be held. There can be no question of surrendering this mighty fortress to the enemy; it will be defended with all the resources at our command...