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...horse ached to do something. On Nov. 11, 1918, he had been in command of 2,057,675 U.S. soldiers. Last week one of his boys, General Douglas MacArthur, was beating off Japanese attacks in the Philippines. Another of his boys was Chief of Staff General George Catlett Marshall, who had been at his side the day Pershing sent the First Division into action near Picardy in 1918, with the words, still good in 1941: "You are going to meet a savage enemy. Meet them like Americans...
...tell the folks at home that the relieved officers are not disgraced, that they are relieved because they are in the wrong jobs, that their patriotic service is appreciated and should be honored. So far, the Army has not been able to find a way. Said General George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff: ". . . The earmarking of an individual as a failure results in two reactions, both unfavorable to the corrective action taken. In the first place, the soldier is encouraged to be supercritical regarding his officers, and the American soldier is given to a critical attitude regarding even the best...
...Army tongues wagging in officers' clubs from Manila to Trinidad. They wagged faster because the measure had been drawn at the instance, not of meddling politicians, but of the War Department itself. It had the approval of Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson, Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall and all the rest of the Army's top crust, with one exception. That exception was the Quartermaster General, Edmund Bristol Gregory. True to Army tradition, he said little more than that he was against...
Once established, this comic mood splits the plot wide open. Billy Ross (Walter Catlett), nightclub impresario, gets a birthday greeting from Miss Dunne, orders her to report for rehearsals. Another switch, and in a wonderfully nonsensical scene he hires her to be his lyrical phone girl...
...Gathering. In the President's party, besides his sons, were Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles; General George Catlett Marshall, Army Chief of Staff; Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, Chief of Naval Operations; Lend-Lease Administrator Harry Hopkins; Admiral King of the Atlantic Fleet; Lend-Lease Coordinator W. Averell Harriman, not to mention his Military Aide Pa Watson, his Naval Aide Captain Beardall, his physician Admiral Mclntire...