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General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, the new U.S. special envoy to China, will be armed for the job as few U.S. diplomats have been armed in years. President Truman had given notice: the General will have a new policy in black & white. It is expected to be a forthright and historic statement of U.S. policy toward China to guide him and all with whom he would deal...
General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff, also went out. with the praise of Harry Truman ringing in his ears: "The greatest military man this country ever produced-or any other country." His successor: confident, ebullient Dwight ("Ike") Eisenhower...
General's Drumfire. The Secretary's reasoning was closely knit, but it was General of the Army George Catlett Marshall who laid down the most effective drumfire. Probably more than any other citizen, George Marshall is trusted by Congress. The members of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, who had stood as a mark of respect to the neatly turned-out, pink-faced Chief of Staff when he entered the room, were clearly impressed as the old soldier sent over his shots...
...General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, worriedly and unwillingly presiding over the liquidation of U.S. military power, the only solution was a universal military training act, which would supply a reservoir of trained men. In General Marshall's plan, such a reservoir could be tapped immediately, and thrown in with the National Guard and the Regular Army to create a force of 4,000,000 men. Only then, said Marshall, would the world continue to respect the U.S. and believe that it really meant what it said-that it would help to keep peace in the world...
With this matter-of-fact statement. General of the Army George Catlett Marshall this week delivered to the nation what may be his valedictory as Chief of Staff. In a "Biennial Report to the Secretary of War," he told how that security had been won. But mainly-and most earnestly-George Marshall warned the U.S. of the certain consequences of future unpreparedness and of how the U.S. might be destroyed in another...