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...Henry L. Stimson, able, ancient (77) Secretary of War, has planned to retire, may drop out soon after V-E day. His successor: question mark, so far as political gossip went. One gleam in Washington eyes: General George Catlett Marshall, with General Eisenhower the new Chief of Staff...
Eruptions and Opinions. One month before George Catlett Marshall declared for conscription in 1940, the Journal authoritatively reported that the Army was against it. In September 1943, it hinted authoritatively that General Marshall would be "kicked upstairs" from his Chief of Staff job. Three months later, its authoritative guess was that a British general would lead the invasion. These wrong guesses were dropped in beside carefully compiled lists of official orders, communiqués, casualty lists (usually, officers only) and social notes on the doings of the officer caste-all reported as staidly as in the Journal's rival...
General George Catlett Marshall took time out from military affairs to purchase 17-year-old, nine-room Liscombe Lodge in Pinehurst, N.C., planned to spend his winters there after the war (see below...
...question of who would win and who would lose-still dangled precariously in the balance. The trend of the war had been reversed in 1942 at Stalingrad and El Alamein. By early 1944 the U.S. was almost fully armed-thanks mainly to the Man of 1943, General George Catlett Marshall...
...replacement system is no improvisation. The ability of the U.S. to fight two wars on fronts some 13,000 miles apart-on a scale which no other nation in the world can match-is due in part to this plan, which General George Catlett Marshall laid down in the beginning...