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...highest officer Jones ever gets to see is young Brigadier General Bullblank, A.A.F. The young general testily offers him three minutes to explain his mission, but uses up the three minutes and nearly an hour more orating to Jones on the minor branches of the Armed Forces. These include the "musical comedy Marines . . . in the Pacific"; the Navy which "sits around . . . eating steak three times a day fried in butter," and the Army which is stalling the war along "until a Ground Forces officer receives the surrender. They'll cheat us [the Air Forces] out of it. Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Treatment | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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