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Among Marine officers, only Vandegrift is considered, and Pratt describes his handling of the Guadalcanal action with fine clarity. The casualty figures underline the sharpshooter tradition perfectly. Japanese dead: 32,000; U.S.: 2,000. The second World War II choice is Bradley, of whom Pratt says flatly: "The ablest soldier in any service during World...
Kurt Schumacher's deputy at Bonn, burly Carlo Schmid, probably the ablest political leader in West Germany, told me: "Whether any of us likes it or not, one thing is true in Europe today-its future depends on the workers of Germany. Russia cannot win them yet-but the West can lose them ... If they should ever desert the West and slide into Bolshevism, then you need no longer worry about what France's workers will do. Then you can have all the Atlantic pacts you can write. Stalin will need no Molotov or Vishinsky, no Cominform...
...departure of Jim Forrestal closed the door on the last Cabinet member Harry Truman inherited from Roosevelt, and one of Washington's ablest officials. Forthright Jim Forrestal had angered the Zionists, embarrassed Democratic strategists with his Wall Street background, and refused to politick for Harry Truman in the 1948 campaign...
...Democratic Party Chairman J. Howard McGrath hoped that Ives would be kept on the Labor Committee, called him "one of the ablest men on labor matters the Republicans have...
Speaking at a sectional meeting of the Massachusetts Conference of Social Work at the Hotel Statler, Professor Kluckhohn declared, "The ablest undergraduates in Harvard College do not always receive the highest honors...