Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matter of Hopes & Fears. Chief antagonists in the running strategic argument at Fontainebleau are Montgomery and De Lattre, who are incompatible personally because they are so much alike. Both are vain and flamboyant, both love authority and leadership. But the basic division is not one of personality: it cuts far deeper, into national hopes & fears. Fundamentally, the British distrust the French and do not believe that France and Western Europe could be successfully defended against attack. They foresee only another Dunkirk and want to keep their military commitments on the Continent to a minimum. The British attitude toward the defense...
General Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny is commander in chief -theoretically-of West Europe's land forces, and the man to whom the most crucial task would fall if the Russians attacked tomorrow. He is also the most striking member of a strange military organism known as Uniforce, which for nine months has quietly tried to plan the defense of Western Europe. The progress & problems of Uniforce throw a light on the issue before the U.S. Congress...
...Union fraternity lies an unprecedented peacetime experiment in military organization. The Western Union defense setup was established last year by the Brussels pact between Great Britain, France and Benelux. It is headed by the five nations' defense ministers; under them is a committee of the five nations' chiefs of staff, which drafts directives for the commanders of the Western Union land, air and sea forces and their staffs. Together these are called Uniforce. The land forces (Uniter) are under De Lattre; the air forces (Uniair) under Britain's Air Chief Marshal Sir James Robb; and the naval...
...Israel, the chief fruit of the armistice was the promise that Arab soldiers finally would be withdrawn from all the territory allocated to her under the U.N. partition plan. For Syria, the armistice meant that paunchy little Dictator Husni Zaim could throw himself wholeheartedly into his pet project-proving that he is not a dictator...
...clinging to power since 1945, burly President Juan Jose Arevalo's left-wing government had leaned heavily on the support of its conservative strong man, Colonel Francisco J. Arana, chief of the armed forces and a member of the army junta which put Arevalo in. All told, the colonel had dutifully stamped out some 20 attempted uprisings. Last week revolutionary guns again slammed and chattered in Guatemala City, but there was no longer an Arana to quiet them. He had been assassinated. The outbreak was an unplanned, furious, futile attempt to avenge him by ousting the government...