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Church. In 1775 George Washington, before taking command of the nation's first army, prayed in his white pew in Christ Church, Alexandria, Va. Before his decision to take command of the Virginia forces, Robert E. Lee prayed there in 1861. In Alexandria, at daybreak Thursday, the balding, vigorous, 34-year-old rector, the Rev. Edward Randolph Welles, summoned eight young men of the parish, gave them a Secret-Service-combed list of 250 parishioners' names, admission cards...
Aircraft Warning Service--Boston Information Center, First Interceptor Command. The course will be open to anyone who in the daytime can participate in 4-hour shifts five days a week, or in the night-time, 6-hour shifts three or four nights a week. Students will be trained in service in three or four days and thereafter will be on regular duty...
...uneasy New Year for Adolf Hitler. Something was rotten in the German Army. The Führer had just relieved Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch from his command (TIME, Dec. 29) and was now, in fact as well as title, the Oberste Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht (Supreme Commander of the Army). But the Oberste Befehlshaber could scarcely have felt as magnificent as his title...
...given the Army as much opportunity for fighting and glory as any Army ever had. But he had often demanded that the fighting be according to his, rather than the Army's strategy. This had led to several open breaks between Adolf Hitler and the Army High Command. Adolf Hitler was protected by the presence of his Gestapo and Elite Guardsmen scattered throughout the Army. But his feud with the Army had become widespread gossip, not only in Germany, but elsewhere...
...militant caste of Samurai and Teutonic Knights ... at the top for all to obey?" Or (a doctrinaire never offers more than two choices) shall "America and the British democracies adopt a common currency and a common citizenship; create a common army, navy and air force under common command; and establish a provisional federal government with limited but adequate powers to provide for the common defense and the general welfare...