Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week decided to set up a watch on the Rhine. Implementing the Brussels alliance (TIME, March 15), the defense ministers of Great Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg met and agreed on common measures against aggression-i:e., against a possible Russian attack. They set up "permanent international command . . . under a permanent military chairman...
...post of "chairman" was to go to Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery; under him France's General Alphonse-Pierre Juin (now governor of North Africa) was to command all land forces; Britain was to get command both at sea and in the air. The ultimate aim was to weld five armies, standing at the West's frontier, into one army...
...Command Decision," last year's Broadway hit by William Wister Hames, is the story of an sir general in England during the war, who is forced to decide whether the end will justify the means. The end is the shortening of the war in Europe by the immediate destruction of three German jet factories; the means are certain and exorbitant casualtics among his own men and the ruin of his own carer...
Though admittedly the lures of "Carmen" are greater, you will like "Command Decision" because it is an interesting, frequently funny, topical play, well done...
...Communist high command, acting through the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences, has declared that the genetics of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (briefly, that environment controls the heredity of organisms) is the only genetics that may be taught in Soviet institutions. The Morgan-Mendelian theory (that heredity is controlled by genes in the cells), generally accepted outside the U.S.S.R., has been forbidden and its adherents disciplined...