Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Eisenhower made it clear that from now on Bradley would have equal status with Montgomery. But Monty, Eisenhower's friend and one of the British Empire's great generals, was not being demoted (as some English newspapers huffily suggested). The command was only developing according to plan...
...thing Eisenhower might well have asked last week was a fourth star for Omar Bradley's helmet. Bradley's new command rated it; Ike Eisenhower knew it had been earned. The victory had been, in great part, a triumph of Bradley's bold tactics. The Eisenhower report did not touch upon anything so touchy as individual credits. Allied teamwork was its theme; and the victory had been, in sum, one of Allied strategy. But the jewel had facets which reflected historic brilliance upon U.S. arms and U.S. generalship...
...centralization under a single supreme command was urgently needed now, the need would become all the more pressing when MacArthur's drive met Admiral Nimitz at the Philippines or when it met General Stilwell's on the coast of China, or when any of the American commands was lapped in the Pacific by Admiral Mountbatten's long-predicted drive east from Ceylon...
Reputedly the U.S. Army was giving a lot of thought to the tangled Pacific command situation, and devoutly hoping an Army man would get the top place. Its "asking price" was that the job should go to MacArthur. But the Army knew that the Navy was likely to take a dim view of MacArthur as generalissimo...
...Navy professed to see no need for unification. It obviously hoped that, when unified command came, an admiral, probably able, steady Chester W. Nimitz, would become top dog. It was plain that if MacArthur got the Philippines back, and Stilwell got to the China coast, both would be stuck until the Navy ferried? them over to Japan. The Navy could afford to let the situation develop...