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...West geared its rearmament to a nicely calculated schedule of "years of maximum danger" had outlived its useful ness. "We have substituted, and I say 'we' with emphasis, for the uncontrolled rush to arms at any price, the long view and the steady, calculated buildup." One Alex ander ambition: to build up a mobile strategic reserve in the U.K. This dashed hopes that the two-year draft might be reduced. Alexander's biggest difficulty: so many of Britain's 860,000 soldiers are needed in Malaya, Kenya, Hong Kong, the Suez...
...Lake Success, the U.S.S.R.'s Alex, ander P. Morozov (a non-Miltonian) told a UNESCO committee that it was all very simple: "a small group of monopolists" kept most of the world press in chains; "communal ownership" (state monopoly) kept the Russian press free (by which a Russian means faithful to the Party dogma). There ought to be a law, he said, to make the capitalist press behave...
Monty had a long, warm talk with Stalin, was given a round of receptions and reviews. Out "to establish friendly contact with the Soviet Army," he invited its Chief of Staff, Marshal Alex ander M. Vasilevsky, and other ranking Russian officers to visit England next summer. The Russians promptly accepted...
...Said Georgia Tech's wise Bill Alex ander (TIME, Feb. 5): "When colleges allow a promoter or any other noncollegiate operator to book their athletic teams" - as they are booked in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and Buffalo's arenas-"they are asking for trouble...
...standing military maxim since Alex ander the Great (356-323 B.C.) has been "Destroy the enemy's leadership." In his principal campaigns Alexander's strategy was based on capturing the enemy's leader. General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck probably had both man and maxim in mind when he opened the Western Desert campaign against the Axis in November. In the most hair-raising story of World War II it was revealed last week that, be fore the attack started, General Auchinleck sent a force of Britain's shock Commandos 200 miles behind the Axis lines...