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...reach higher permanent rank (in 1941 there were only 21 active major generals, six lieutenant generals, one full general) the income with allowances for dependents is around $10,000. Flying pay, parachute pay, foreign-service pay boost these salaries. War creates more temporary high ranks. But the military careerist, whose peacetime responsibilities should be large and whose wartime responsibilities may be awesome, can expect only to die poor...
...Careerist. In Manhattan, off to prison went John Stoloto, who had been twice nabbed-first as he tried to swipe an umbrella from the District Attorney's auto: next, a few minutes later, as he rummaged through the car of a detective...
...appointed to head the Commissariat. Thereby General Giraud won an argument for a military man to run what is in effect a civilian ministry of war. But General de Gaulle also won an argument for putting Army command under Committee authority. And Paul Legentilhomme, a St. Cyr military academy careerist, has been a Gaullist since 1940 and bears the scars of a wound inflicted by Vichyites in Syria...
...lifelong military careerist with no political experience, General Tsolakoglou called on all Greeks, soldiers or private citizens, to cease fighting. "Any further bloodshed would be senseless and suicidal," he said. "Everyone should join in giving thanks for the resurrection of Greece and stop fighting for foreign interests...
...Britons. Total with reserves: about 560 men. Beside these stood another 560 native mounted police with rifles, machine guns, British officers. Their leader was Lieut. Colonel Arthur Reginald Chater, oldtime desert fighter. Governor and Commander in Chief of the protectorate is Vincent Goncalves Glenday, 49, an Oxonian sportsman careerist in Britain's colonial service...