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Fittingly enough, the strategy of unity was first proposed by the first victim of Axis aggression, China. In Chungking Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week suggested the immediate formation of an Allied High Command. Britain responded by directing General Sir Archibald Wavell to further British cooperation with China. Anthony Eden flew to Moscow to find out exactly how far Russia would go in joint action. In London and Washington both military and civil authorities of all the Allied nations conferred. President Roosevelt said that plans for joint action were coming along very nicely...
Like Hitler's appeal to his people through the voice of Joseph Goebbels (see p. 2j), Hitler's appeal to his men on assuming his new command showed the full measure of his uneasiness...
Last year the U.S. Army buckled to the task of re-equipping its Philippine Department. In the summer of 1941 it decided to recall MacArthur to the U.S. flag. On July 26, 1941 MacArthur was named Lieutenant General in command of the United States Army Forces in the Far East (the Army shortens the title to USAFFE, but MacArthur prefers to call it the Army of the Far East, the A.F.E.). Last week President Roosevelt capped the return of MacArthur to action by making him, again, a full four-star General...
MacArthur's Command. To his new command, MacArthur brought a dowry of Filipino loyalty. Relations between Filipinos and the U.S. Army in the Philippines had hitherto been only cordial. But Mac-Arthur, who had created the Philippine Army, trusted it and could command it as he wished. "I know a fighting army when I see one," he had said, "and these men are a fighting army...
Competent Major General George Grunert, whom MacArthur superseded as commander of U.S. Army Forces, had laid the ground work for vigorous defense before he left. MacArthur set about bringing his more than 20,000 Filipino regulars under U.S. command and prepared for the gradual incorporation of more than 125,-ooo Filipino reserves. Racing against time, MacArthur demanded, and began to receive, a sizable trickle from the spigot of U.S. production. Transports threaded the maze of the island waterways, bringing U.S. troops, planes, technicians, tanks. Out of the East, Flying Fortresses roared to secret concentrations within the islands...