Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lumsden, who had risen from the ranks, became involved in a ruinous personal disagreement with his superior officers. Winston Churchill assigned Lumsden as his liaison officer with General MacArthur in the Southwest Pacific. There Lumsden faithfully did his routine duty with a heavy heart and longed for another combat command...
Standing only the width of the ship's bridge away from Lumsden, with whom he had been discussing the action, was Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, commander in chief of the British Pacific Fleet. He got nothing worse than "a bit of a bang in the ears." Sir Bruce will soon lead his own powerful fleet into battle under U.S. overall command...
...Switzerland booksellers announced a reduction in the price of German war books: From the Karawanken Mountains to Crete from $1.25 to 40?; In Defiance of All Powers (the German High Command's official treatise on Nazi military philosophy) from 65? to 30?; Breakthrough in the West and Victory Over France from...
...Bulgarian listeners Radio Sofia broadcast a more sensational side of the trials (see above). One of the defendants was a former Regent, Prince Cyril, brother of the late Tsar Boris III, who died mysteriously after a command visit with Adolf Hitler a year and a half...
...Dictator Getulio Vargas' chronic purge was Air General Eduardo Gomes, the last of the leading revolutionary liberals of 1930 to hold a high government post. He was reported to be the leader of the clandestine, anti-Vargas National Democratic Union (TIME, Jan. 1). Relieved of the airforce command which made him potentially dangerous to the Dictator, Gomes may go to Washington as a military observer...