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...wore a greenish tweed suit, a green tie, a green ribbon in his lapel; on his desk stood a vase of green carnations, a pot of shamrock. He was pleased at having a big cat to let out of the bag-General MacArthur's new command in Australia; and he had something else up his sleeve. He had found one of those sly, semi-scholarly parallels on which he loves to impale his more annoying critics, like marshmallows on a toasting fork. In 168 B.C. the Consul Lucius Aemilius Paulus, about to lead the Romans to victory over...
...United Nations at last had a High Command. It was not in London, where most U.S. citizens would have guessed it would be. It was in a cool white building put up for the United States Public Health Service in Washington, across Constitution Avenue from the Munitions and Navy Buildings. By this week the headquarters of the "Combined Chiefs of Staff had become the greatest complex of military secrets in the Allied world...
Dream. This united High Command fulfills a dream of General George Catlett Marshall, the U.S. Army's Chief of Staff. As a member of "Black Jack" Pershing's staff in World War I, General Marshall saw the lamentable results of the Allies' failure to cooperate. As a peacetime soldier without glory in his own country, he knew, as other military men knew, that effective joint military action depends on effective joint command...
...United Nations Command Post has done more than bring the Allied High Commands together: it has brought the services together. Army and Navy officers sit in the same room, fight out their problems across their desks. Gone is the oldtime system under which a captain asked his colonel to ask the Secretary of War to ask the Secretary of the Navy to detail a commander to confer with the captain...
...used. Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, controlled U.S. forces in India, Burma and China, as well as the Fifth and Sixth Chinese armies in Burma. But most of China's forces were naturally under Generalissimo Chiang. These problems of command ceased to be problems with the High Command working smoothly. Along the Bataan peninsula and across the blue Manila harbor waters to the fortress of Corregidor, the Japanese were threatening a final all-out attack. Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright's future was up to the High Command...