Word: brehon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...momentous conference in Chungking closed last week in deafening silence. For a day and a half Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, had talked with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his wife, with top Chinese generals, with U.S. Lieut. Generals Joseph Stilwell and Brehon Somervell. Then, looking tired, with crow's-feet showing at the corners of his eyes, Lord Louis hurried back to India...
Lord Louis had arrived to iron out the last organizational wrinkles in his new command, to get set for an expected push into Burma or Malaya. That day he talked with U.S., Chinese and British officers. Next day arrived Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, chief of the U.S. Army Service Forces, and Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell, U.S. commander in the China-Burma-India theater. From New Delhi Lord Louis planned a trip to Chungking to talk over with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek the big and vital job of reopening an overland path to China...
Said Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell: "It is easy to say that the 50 trucks or the 200 engines which could not be produced against schedule this month can be made up next month, but a battlefield lost on Tuesday is difficult to regain on Wednesday...
Since overall military strategy is based on a production timetable which was set to increase month by month for the next six months, the U.S. began to see what Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell meant when he called the May production drop "serious" (TIME, July...
...Machine-gun assemblers get $4,700 to $8,740 a year. (Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, in charge of U.S. Army supply, gets $8,500. U.S. soldiers and sailors, at $50 a month, must take down and assemble machine guns, blindfolded.) Moralized Mr. Engel: "On the other hand, we attempt to freeze a half-million coal miners at wage rates of $1,200 to $1,700 a year...