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...year-old war horse ached to do something. On Nov. 11, 1918, he had been in command of 2,057,675 U.S. soldiers. Last week one of his boys, General Douglas MacArthur, was beating off Japanese attacks in the Philippines. Another of his boys was Chief of Staff General George Catlett Marshall, who had been at his side the day Pershing sent the First Division into action near Picardy in 1918, with the words, still good in 1941: "You are going to meet a savage enemy. Meet them like Americans...
...Mayor LaGuardia announced that he will enlist 90,000 licensed pilots, 90,000 student pilots, 100,000 ground workers to serve in a Civil Air Patrol for the war's duration. Under the command of Major General John F. Curry of the U.S. Army Air Corps, CAP will operate from 2,000 airports in the U.S. which are not used for military or commercial flights...
...Milch of the Air Force. Last June, when he launched his attack on Russia, Adolf Hitler spoke of "the tying up of such powerful German forces in the east that the radical conclusion of the war in the west...could no longer be vouched for by the German High Command." If Germany can now stabilize the Russian front (see p. 25), that radical conclusion might be attempted...
This was the story that confronted President Roosevelt last week in Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's violently isolationist Chicago Tribune. It purported to be a transcript of a secret document drawn up for President Roosevelt by the high command of the U.S. Army & Navy...
...stocks enough for about 15 months of all-out war. Normally consuming 28 million barrels a year, she can command from Manchukuo. Sakhalin, Formosa, and her own wells and synthetic productions only some 7 ½ million barrels...