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...single division in the U.S. was fully trained and equipped. Even the staff organization, which was ready in 1940 to guide the growth of the war-born Army, had come loose at the seams. Eisenhower's flat prediction: "It would take another year to establish the framework of an organization with an efficiency that would compare with what...
Mexicans call the monument "La Gasolinera" because of its likeness to a giant filling station. It was built by Porfirio Diaz not as a monument but as the central portion of his legislative palace. But revolution caught up with Don Porfirio, the palace was never completed, and ultimately the framework was sheathed with stone, to stand as an ungainly testimony to Diaz's overthrow...
...court had smiled when they heard d'Argenlieu address their monarch as "Sire." The courtiers knew this meant that France no longer considered Sianouk as a native chieftain but a real king, and Cambodia not as a protectorate but as an almost-autonomous state within the framework of a projected French union. In return the French would expect continued Cambodian loyalty in an otherwise disaffected colony. France would still control Cambodian foreign affairs, and her prewar administrators would remain as "royal advisers." But Cambodia's new status, formalized by treaty, was France's way of rewarding Cambodia...
...China-Burma-India area was the most confused of all Allied war commands. A U.S. colonel once despairingly explained that the multinational, multiservice commands could not be illustrated on an ordinary service chart, but needed "a three-dimensional organization chart with a wire framework and five shades of colored ribbon, which ought to indicate at least the simpler relationships...
...about of conditions of law and order." In Java, the most troublesome and disaffected region, there would be "a strong policy-more force and more troops." The objective was an atmosphere "without fear or violence," in which Netherlanders and Indonesians could settle their differences by peaceful negotiation "within the framework of the Netherlands kingdom...