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...Gaulle had stood adamantly for: 1) a purge of ex-Vichyite officers; 2) a modernization of the armed forces along the lines he had vainly preached .for two decades before the fall of France. General Henri Honore Giraud had agreed in principle, but he wanted control of the scope and tempo of reform. Over these issues the negotiations deadlocked while the Generals kept apart. Then, one evening in the quiet of his home, General Georges Catroux brought De Gaulle and Giraud together again...
...yesterday I found Oscar in a lamentable condition. I was sincerely sorry for him. He was lying in a crumpled heap on top of a "scope." I guess one of the Master Minds had knocked all the sparks out of him, because when I approached, he bowed reverently toward the East in an oriental fashion and muttered "Chaffee is the only God and Tatum is his prophet...
Winston Churchill indicated the scope of the assurance and the nature of the condition. He also stated the reaction of the global strategists when he said: The experiment is well worth trying, so long as other measures are not excluded. Although this was a qualified statement, it may be assumed that the allocation to the European air campaign in the European theater had been made with due regard to "other measures...
...international wheat trade agreement is any criterion, then there is reason to fear that the Washington bureaucrats are toying with international commitments so altruistic and visionary in scope that they do not dare to lay their plans before the people for approval...
...Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society begins another significant phase of the reorientation of educational effort at Harvard University. The committee will undertake to plan for the tremendous demands that a post-war America will make upon the nation's educational system. The scope of the planning will include, in addition to the colleges of the nation, the secondary schools and adult educational programs with particular emphasis upon the elements of a general education and the social and economic factors influential theron...