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...Washington, Lieut. General Filip Ivanovitch Golikov and Engineer General Alexander Repin, heads of a Soviet military mission to coordinate Russian orders for supplies, arrived by air, conferred with Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles and General George Catlett Marshall, U.S. Chief of Staff...
General George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff and field commander of the Army, last week made the plea that no politician had dared to make. In his biennial report, publicized with plenty of Page One fanfare, he asked...
There were hopeful signs last week that the U.S. Army is facing the fact that wars can't be won without putting the right men in the right places. A lot of this good horse sense is coming from Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall. One sign of it was a request for more authority to weed out incompetent officers (see above). Another: what General Marshall said about the selection of officers for big commands...
Black Jack Pershing in France with the A.E.F. 24 years ago would have been pleased to have many of the resources which are today available to Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall. Even General William Crozier, boss of the Army's Ordnance in 1917, would have jumped at the chance of obtaining as much or as good equipment as the U.S. Army's Ordnance chief, General Charles M. Wesson, is able to provide today...
Last week the U.S. people got two reports on the state of their new Army. One was from Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall. The other was from Brigadier General Harry Lewis Twaddle,† who last week took over the General Staff division (G3) in charge of Army mobilization, operations, organization and training. Gist of both reports: the Army is over the hump. It is far better off than was the U.S. Army of 1917. It will soon be the first Army-in-being, ready to fight, which the U.S. ever had before entering...