Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Forrestal was able to announce the "broad outline" of the first major step toward effective integration. Planes and personnel of NATS and ATS would be combined to form the Military Air Transport Service, under the command of the Air Force. The new service would fly all scheduled routes now flown by the separate services, but both would continue to operate transport planes for strictly intra-service purposes...
...named to command MATS was lean, able Major General Laurence S. Kuter, U.S. representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal, who recently turned down a post as CAB chairman, when the Senate refused to let him keep his rank and higher Army pay on the new job. He would take over the command of MATS on March...
...British, who put him on his throne, have a firm rein on the impetuous Abdullah. His proud army depends on a yearly British subsidy of $8,000,000, British arms and supplies, and 48 British officers who advise and command it. If British support were withdrawn, Abdullah knows that his Legion would quickly deteriorate into just another ragged Arab band...
Asked what he would do if the War Office sent orders contrary to Abdullah's, the man who serves two kings replied: "I am a British subject. I would have no alternative but to resign my command." Last week the British hoped that Glubb would not be forced on to the horns of that dilemma. If the little chess player's ambitions run away with him, say the British, they will immediately withdraw their subsidy, officers, Glubb and all, and cut off supplies...
Liberal Fanatic. Into this assemblage of heroes came Major Gregory Harris, a Harvard man, with a year's experience in the State Department, no combat flying, precise features, and a small mustache. He had asked to be transferred from the Air Transport Command because he believed in the war, and in fighting it "violently." He also believed that we could not rationally fight Fascism abroad and not fight against the first steps toward it at home-race prejudice, for example...