Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gude Sir Patrick Spens" in the old Scottish ballad was "the best when sailor that ever sail'd the sea." Nevertheless, when the King assigned him to command a bad-weather cruise to Norway, gude Sir Patrick asked a question his namesake may have cause to repeat: "O wha is this has done this deed and tauld the king...
...landlocked Paraguay, Dictator-President Higinio Morínigo could hardly be blamed for overlooking Admiral Mahan's classic studies of the influence of sea power on history. There was less excuse for his forgetting the Clausewitz command to land fighters to concentrate the main force on the main enemy. Because he ignored both teachers, Morínigo last week was in a tough spot...
...wrinkle to India's liberation problems. "I have arrived," said he, "at the conclusion that unless within a year of the liberation of India cow slaughter is prohibited by law, I shall stake all I have, I will pool all my resources and energies that I command, I shall be prepared to starve to death. I shall not hesitate to lay down my life for this most sacred cause...
...coals), went 68-year-old Sir Harold Hartley, famed chemist and transportation expert who had managed Britain's aviation gasoline program in World War II. As his managing director, Sir Harold got young (34), handsome Whitney Straight,* ex-R.A.F. pilot and commodore in Britain's Transport Command. Born in the U.S., Straight has lived in England since he was 13. He became a British subject and in his 20s he founded the Straight Corp., ran 23 of its aviation companies, including Western Airways, busiest in the British Isles. In one season it carried 42,000 passengers between...
...first, and classic, account of German "psychological warfare" was Edmond Taylor's The Strategy of Terror (1940). In 1943, Taylor got a wartime job well suited to his gifts, as OSS coordinator with Lord Louis Mountbatten's Southeast Asia Command. Richer by Asia tells how 28 months in Asia changed...