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...undershirt with suspenders down, Carl Spaatz, announced a soldierly decision last week: no politics-he would stick to his own game. The General was interviewed while he was shaving...
Pennsylvania's Democratic politicos were courting the Army Air Forces' four-star General Carl A. Spaatz as assiduously as fraternity seniors rushing a football star. Ruddy, square-cut "Tooey" Spaatz looked like a dream candidate for governor. The General, well aware of Washington forecasts that he will be appointed to succeed General Henry H. Arnold as commander of the air forces, wouldn't say yes and wouldn't say no. But he was betraying a certain quiet fascination with the idea of being governor of his old home state. The Democrats badly needed a candidate like...
Army's Ball. The Army, all out for merger, had kept the ball. All week, before the Senate Military Affairs Committee, the Army's best backs plunged down the field. Tough, sardonic Air General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, soon to be Chief of Army Air Forces, stressed the importance of air power in the "airpower age." Said General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower: "Unless we have unity of direction in Washington through the years of peace that lie ahead we may enter another . . . Pearl Harbor...
...Complete silence greeted them as they ascended the deck. The American generals watched them come to attention in their designated places with varying degrees of emotion. Stilwell bristled like a dog at the sight of an enemy. Spaatz' chiseled face lines were sharp in contempt. Kenney curled his lips in a visible sneer...
...doesn't have to go that far back. In fact, he doesn't have to go back at all. It shouldn't tax his muddled brain too much to recall that a few million Americans, many of German descent and including such notables as Eisenhower and Spaatz, saved the British Isles from invasion, and to realize that many others of German descent-Nimitz, Wedemeyer, Mitscher, Eichelberger and Krueger, to name a few-are helping to save the Empire...