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...stoop over the point of an upended bayonet until, after 20 minutes of agony, he toppled and gashed himself (but he never named his tormentors). By 1901, when he graduated 15th in his class, George Catlett Marshall, son of a well-off coke processor, collateral descendant of Chief Justice John Marshall, had become a legend: First Captain of the Corps of Cadets, all-Southern football tackle, tireless hiker, faultless in conduct and dress-soldier...
...prospect of more unpreparedness. Fatefully, when the first flames of the new European conflict sputtered to life, he was a brigadier general in the War Plans Division in Washington. On Sept. 1, 1939, the day Hitler smashed into Poland, President Roosevelt jumped Marshall over 34 higher-ranking officers to Chief of Staff and four-star rank, handed him the job of getting an unprepared nation ready for war. Battling divided public opinion and an isolationist Congress, Marshall stubbornly, coldly, turned a sparsely trained Army of about 400,000 into a sharp, hard-fighting, brilliantly organized global weapon that numbered more...
...Chief of Staff, rubber-stamped Marshall's choices of top men for the top jobs-Eisenhower, Bradley, Clark, Hodges, Patton. He resolutely supported Marshall's argument, over Douglas MacArthur's, that the Allies had to win the European war first before going all-out in the Pacific-a turn of events that galled the spectacular MacArthur, who was Chief of Staff when Marshall was a lieutenant colonel. When F.D.R. succumbed to the prolonged arguments of Winston Churchill, who insisted on attacking the "soft underbelly of Europe," it was Marshall who got him to change his mind...
...bargaining positions. Rebel "President" Ferhat Abbas flew to Rabat to consult Morocco's King Mohammed V, whose son, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, had established direct contact with Charles de Gaulle. The Paris weekly Jours de France quoted Abbas as telling its correspondent: "De Gaulle is a big caid [chief], and I am a big caid. So let's get together." Abbas' aides denied that he had made the statement, but few doubted that the interview had taken place. And Paris was plainly getting the signal; in the National Assembly, Premier Michel Debre emphasized that the French offer...
Some pungent excerpts from the forthcoming Triumph in the West, Volume II of the war diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbroolce, Chief of Britain's Imperial General Staff during World War II, were published in Canada by Maclean's Magazine. Items...