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...leave but has been persuaded to stay on-to finish Bradley's memoirs. Of the host of other U.S. postwar memoirs, few have come into print without a touch of ectoplasmic eloquence. Two recent exceptions to the rule: General Dwight D. Eisenhower's and General George Kenney...
...MacArthur. Hardest hit by Kenney's free-swinging, almost casual criticism is General Richard K. Sutherland, Arthur's wartime chief of staff (since retired). Admitting that Sutherland was "smart," Kenney also says that "an unfortunate bit of arrogance, combined with his egotism, had made him almost universally disliked . . . Sutherland was inclined to overemphasize his smattering of knowledge of aviation." The showdown came during the very first week, when Sutherland tried to write the orders for Kenney's first big show. Writes Kenney: "I told him that I was running the Air Force because I was the most...
Among others banged by Brass Knocker Kenney...
Lieut. General George H. Brett (now retired), who, says George Kenney, didn't even know how many planes he had in his command when Kenney came to succeed...
...Kenney also has some hard things to say about U.S. infantry in New Guinea, and he names units. His regard for MacArthur approaches near-worship, but MacArthur's whole staff is flayed repeatedly. Kenney, who lost his job as chief of the Strategic Air Command last year (he now heads the Air University at Maxwell Field, Ala.), may be too impolitic for peacetime Washington, but as a wartime trouble-shooter he ranks at the top. General Kenney Reports shows...