Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, Jim Forrestal went before the Senate committee and began his counterbattery fire. Conceding that unified command in the field was essential for operating efficiency, he still would not admit that the principle was valid in Washington. He feared that the proposed "departmental colossus" would be militarily unsound, and too much for one man to administer...
...under a tree, waiting to be browbeaten. "Nearby Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel peacefully sunned himself on the porch. Last week Keitel told what happened next. Hitler appeared in the doorway, screaming: "Keitel, come here!" Schuschnigg watched as Germany's tall, arrogant Chief of the Supreme High Command strode into the house...
From Tokyo this week came a notable appeal for a unified command of all the nation's armed forces. Broadcasting a report of his occupation of Japan, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur said...
...that destiny, if need be, Chiang Kai-shek would fight again, with every wile and gun at his command...
King George persuaded the BBC to change ITMA's broadcast time to a later hour so as not to upset the palace dinner routine. Princess Elizabeth, on her sixteenth birthday, had the cast invited to Windsor Castle for Britain's first and only command radio performance...