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...good guess that, with the war over, Russia wants her military leaders to take more & more of a back seat and mingle less & less with outsiders. From Washington last week came a significant story. When General Walter Bedell Smith, who had established close, cordial contacts with many a Soviet brasshat in Berlin, reached Moscow as U.S. Ambassador last spring, he invited seven of them (including Zhukov) to dinner at the Embassy. Only one (not Zhukov) came...
...commander admitted that a southern China port must be opened before the armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek can be rearmed. But "Vinegar Joe," who probably knows China better than any brasshat in New Delhi, stoutly held that the "Hump" air route and the Ledo Road can fill the immediate gap in China's desperate needs, thus fit into the general Asia strategy...
There is no real evidence yet of injury to the Navy's wartime fighting strength by the system's operation, inequitable as it may seem. This is cited by Navy brasshats as their side of the story. Another brasshat argument is that just because a man went to Annapolis, or has a friend on the selection board, does not prove ipso facto that he will be a knothead in combat. Another argument is that if the Navy were composed entirely of "original thinkers" it would not last long as a Navy...
Many a U. S. Army and Navy brasshat has publicly echoed the fervid words of his present Commander-in-Chief, "I hate war." Few would deny that they love to play at war, particularly when they may pick their own playgrounds and seasons. Last week two of 1937's three major U. S. war games were in full roar...