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...thin, the U.S. Navy had a job on its hands to keep the sub packs from blocking sea lanes to the south. But it was determined that it would not fall in with Nazi plans by recalling U.S. destroyer fleets to home waters. Last week the Navy was given command of all anti-submarine activities off both the East and the West Coasts, which brought under its jurisdiction several air units of the U.S. Army...
General MacArthurs first task was to organize an effective command system. It was no easy job. He had to gear himself to the United Nations' central headquarters in Washington (TIME, March 30) and to a new Pacific War Council which the President created in Washington this week, with equal representation for Australia, New Zealand, China, Canada, the U.S., Britain. He had to find adequate use for the talented, familiar staff which he brought with him from the Philippines* without offending the hospitable but proud Aussies...
...three senior commanders under General MacArthur, two were Americans: Lieut. General George H. Brett, a veteran of Java, in charge of the air, and Rear Admiral Herbert F. Leary, in command at sea. Third in the top triumvirate was General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney, commanding all ground forces. Blue-eyed, 58-year-old General Blarney had just returned from the Middle East, bringing with him a big part of the Australian Imperial Force which had fought in Greece, Crete and Libya...
...people could partly discount his words as the wholly admirable caution of the brilliant Japanese naval command...
...Could there be any more seditious suggestion," cried Bevan, "at the very time when the British Army was in France facing the enemy . . . undermining confidence in the High Command just as much as anything the Daily Mirror has printed since...