Word: commandants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attacked-but insisted in his testimony that Kimmel had received ample warning. But "Betty" Stark refused to criticize "Mustapha" Kimmel, one of his "closest and finest friends." ¶ In a statement to the Roberts Commission, made public for the first time, Major General Walter C. Short blamed his command's failures on the War Department and the Navy, which he accused of giving him insufficient information. ¶ A report by the late Navy Secretary Frank Knox, made soon after the disaster, was also made public. It contained the story of another sorry failure: after the attack, Army radar operators...
...prisoners in the guardhouse of the loth Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield. But last week, as the story of repeated brutalities (TIME, Dec. 31) continued to unfold, lowly Sergeant Smith became almost the forgotten man at his own trial. The accusing finger pointed higher & higher up the chain of command...
LoBuono was Major General Albert E. Brown, who had been chief of the Ground Force Reinforcement Command. Brown, according to LoBuono, had told him that the treatment at the guardhouse was "too soft," and had told Defendant Smith: "You're not tough enough on these men. You're running a hotel, Sergeant...
...court. He asked "that the people who planned and carried out the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan should be regarded in the same light as we." The court ignored his plea. The sentence: death, by hanging, for Admiral Sakaibara and ten other Japanese naval officers under his command...
George Bernard Shaw, Irish advocate of a phonetic English alphabet (see EDUCATION), decided to give Eire his early manuscripts. Dublin had asked for them, and "as an Irishman I regarded that request in the nature of a command." It was no Christmas present, said he, for "I don't have anything to do with Christmas. I'm a civilized human being...