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Died. General Nicholas Plastiras, 70, oldtime revolutionary and war hero, and three times Greece's Premier; of a heart ailment; near Athens. Risen from the ranks, Cavalryman Plastiras served with distinction in the Balkan Wars (1912-13), World War I, the postwar anti-Bolshevist Allied expedition to the Ukraine, and Greece's war against the Turks, who respectfully nicknamed him the "Black Pepper." When Greece was disastrously beaten by Turkey (1922), Plastiras helped oust King Constantine, whose regime was blamed for the defeat. In 1933, Plastiras staged another coup to forestall a Royalist comeback, ruled as dictator...
Only two things were known about General Henri Eugène Navarre in Indo-China: 1) he was a cavalryman; 2) he was the intelligence officer who had divined the exact and detailed order of battle of the German army facing France in September 1939. After three weeks as commander in chief of the French Union forces in Indo-China, little more was known about him. A small, shy man. he appeared to detest ostentation and ceremony. He hardly showed himself to the troops, and he evaded newsmen. Once he got into the news by accident when Communists shot...
...conduct of the war was harsh. Leading French administrators, e.g., Saar Ambassador Gilbert Grandyal, were shying away from service in the crumbling Associated States. But last week Premier Rene Mayer nonetheless found a new and promising commander in chief for Indo-China: General Henri Eugene Navarre, oldtime cavalryman and armored-force officer...
...Stalin ribs the comrades unmercifully. "Viatcheslav Mikhailovitch," he yelled at Molotov during one gorodki game, "you hold the stick like an old woman with a broom!" Sputtered Molotov: "I'd like to see you try to play gorodki with glasses on!" Watching Budenny, the handle-bar-mustached old cavalryman, swig vodka at dinner, Stalin joshed: "Our Marshal goes through the vodka like Suvarov.* Too bad he doesn't resemble Suvarov in other ways...
...Governor's Island in New York Harbor, the Army's senior cavalryman, Lieut. General Willis D. Crittenberger, 62, retiring as commander of the First Army, reviewed his last honor guard, enjoyed a ticker parade up Broadway to a City Hall reception, then headed west for a family Christmas with his son at Fort Sam Houston, where the general first reported for duty with the old 3rd Cavalry in August...