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...responsibility, were such top commanders in the theater as British General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, chief planner and strategist; Admiral Sir Andrew Brown Cunningham, boss of the Mediterranean fleet; Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, strategist of the air. They made the specific plans, which had to be shared with President Roosevelt, with Prime Minister Churchill, with General Marshall and the Anglo-U.S. staffs in Washington. But the ultimate responsibility was Eisenhower's. And to accomplish his job Eisenhower must lean heavily on his British-American headquarters staff, the unsung heroes who attend to the complex...
Handling the incredibly complicated British-American supply job in A.F.H.Q.'s G-4 are 47-year-old Brigadier General Clarence Adcock and his British deputy, 47-year-old Brigadier R. R. Lewis. Also concerned with U.S. supplies and personnel is Major General Everett Hughes, head of a separate U.S. administrative staff. Drawing supplies 1,900 miles from Britain, 4,100 miles from the U.S., these officers must work at least three months ahead of battle schedules. At least once they vetoed an invasion plan because the supplies could not be promised in time. Says Brigadier Lewis: "Someone just...
Note on the shifting emphasis of World War II: Cadaverous James McCauley Landis, called in to rescue the Office of Civilian Defense from its dancer and bowling coordinator dog days two months after Pearl Harbor, is resigning soon to go to Cairo as a member of the British-American board on Middle East supplies...
Editing the New York World when it was one of the most influential of U.S. newspapers, Lippmann knew that a combination of British-American sea power was (and is) essential. "Nevertheless I was too weak-minded to take a stand against the exorbitant folly of the Washington Disarmament Conference." He praised that disaster as a triumph, denounced the admirals who dared to protest. "Of that episode in my life I am ashamed, all the more so because I had no excuse for not knowing better...
...already committed to it." Mirage 2. Disarmament "is applicable, if at all, only to Tibet, which has no for eign relations, cannot be invaded, is not worth conquering, and has no outlying commitments. . . ." Mirage 3. Isolationism never was and never can be; the Founding Fathers al ways maintained the British-American community of interest, more durable and more important than a practical alliance...