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Upon this conception of their global policy, General Marshall and the U.S. Army command were willing to stand last week...
...Global Grace. General Marshall likes to be out with the troops, but last week, as he is most of the time, he was in Washington. At 7:30 each morning he stepped from a black Buick sedan and walked into the Munitions Building on Constitution Avenue. In his big, plain office on the second floor, next door to the Secretary of War, he began his day by looking through "the log"?a sheaf of radiograms and cables from Britain, Iceland, Newfoundland, Alaska, the Caribbean, Brazil, British Guiana, Ecuador, West Africa, North Africa, Persia, Hawaii, Australia, the Solomons, India, China?...
Always there were long, blue, green and pink reports from the Combined Chiefs of Staff?the Allies' nearest equivalent of a global command, which General Marshall was principally responsible for organizing last February. Usually these reports were from Britain's Sir John Dill or his subordinates, or from the U.S. Navy's Admiral Ernest Joseph King, if some matter touching the interlocked U.S. and British navies had come up. If there were references to the Russians or the Chinese, who consult only the C.C.S., they usually came through U.S. or British channels...
...Global Round. By 9 a.m. General Marshall was ready for new business. First to see him was usually Major General Thomas T. ("Tom") Handy, a little known but highly important Army figure who heads the General Staff's Operations Division, charged with developing new ideas and improving old ones for the combat armies. Although the chief duty of the reorganized General Staff is to evolve plans to be executed by the Army's functional branches?Air, Ground, Supply?Tom Handy actually directs much of the Army's operations...
...Global Pair. Occasionally the compact list of morning callers includes the spare, incisive man who, beyond all others in the Army except Douglas MacArthur, has caught the public eye: Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, Chief of the Services of Supply. Among the men around the Chief of Staff, General Somervell bears a distinctive brand. Brilliant, dashing, he depends strongly upon picked subordinates of whom he requires the same luminous qualities. Quiet, monotonal George Marshall requires great competence, but he does not demand brilliance; he knows how to use the human tools at hand, considering it part of his duty...