Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field commanders, said General Campbell, do not want heavy, slow-moving sluggers. He had offered to supply the Army with a 62-ton tank. But the mobility-minded High Command declined them, still did not want them in Europe. U.S. generals, he said, prefer lighter, nimbler armor...
...clearing for action, Shaef spruced up its chain of command, announced a shift made last week. Back to Lieut. Gen. Omar D. Bradley 's 21st Army Group went the American First Army which had been shifted to Field Marshal Montgomery's 21st Group during the Battle of the Bulge. Shaef censors let out a delayed dispatch saying that the coiled American Ninth, also once part of Bradley's command, remained under Britain's Montgomery in the 12th Army Group...
...Britain over Syria and Lebanon are emphasized ... in a review of foreign affairs that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault made to the Cabinet. He discussed the demonstrations against the French in those countries which were said here to represent a demand for local control of the armed forces under French command. Mr. Bidault emphatically said that France intends to defend her rights firmly in Syria and Lebanon, and contends that there would be no problem' there, if the British did not interfere...
Errand of Mercy. If the Japs were set to defend Manila like Plaridel, there was trouble ahead-and the greatest danger to thousands of Allied civilians interned in Manila's prison camps. The high command was ready for that...
...Britain over Syria and Lebanon are emphasized ... in a review of foreign affairs that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault made to the Cabinet. He discussed the demonstrations against the French in those countries which were said here to represent a demand for local control of the armed forces under French command. Mr. Bidault emphatically said that France intends to defend her rights firmly in Syria and Lebanon, and contends that there would be no problem' there, if the British did not interfere...