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...leave vast tracts of Russia in apparent peace (from the air, reporters had seen such areas behind the German advance); that the scorching of the Russian earth, sluiced by many streams, wetted by many rains, would be difficult in any case. Anyone could guess that if the Russian High Command surrendered or fled, most Russian self-destruction would cease...
...worth noting that President Roosevelt now agrees with General Andrews and that the General is the newly chosen chief of the Caribbean Defense Command...
...Andy" Andrews, who is stepping into the command of this No. 1 U.S. defense area, is also one of the Army's foremost airmen. In conjunction, these two facts are historic. For they mean that the Army has had the sense to give a soldier who knows the air full command of all Army forces in an area where fighting would be about 99% air and sea and only about 1% land...
When, at the end of his tour as GHQ Air Force commander in 1939, he reverted to his regular rank of colonel and was shipped off to Texas, most people in the Army thought that he had been sent to Coventry for his persistence. Soon after Chief of Staff George C. Marshall assumed command of the Army, he spotted Andy Andrews for an over-all command. The record shows that Colonel Andrews was soon promoted to Brigadier General once more, assigned to the General Stafr in charge of G-3 (operations & training) for the expanding Army. That experience stands...
Perhaps his post as second in command of a gun turret at the Battle of Jutland gave George VI that sense of reality that modern monarchs seldom get. Perhaps it was his training as a pilot in the early R.A.F. But "the merit of having mobilized the Duke of York's social conscience goes to . . . the Reverend Robert Hyde," long a social worker among England's poor. Hyde once proposed a great welfare project to King George V. The King called in the Duke of York, asked him to sponsor the project. "I will do it," said...