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Revelation No. 1: Very simply Klim mentioned the hitherto unknown fact that Admiral Vladimir Orlov, who recently "disappeared" from his post as Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy, and Admiral A. K. Sivkov, who "disappeared" from command of the Baltic Fleet, "have been wiped off the face of the earth as fascist bandits, traitors and spies...
...Woodson & Watson" will read the battery of Presidential service aides next fall when Captain Walter B. Woodson, lately chief of staff & aide, Commander-in-Chief of the Asiatic Fleet, becomes Naval Aide, joining Military Aide Edwin M. Watson. His shore duty up, Naval Aide Paul H. Bastedo takes command of the U.S.S. Qnincy...
...first time since he took command in East Africa, dapper, precise Marshal Pietro Badoglio received war correspondents in Asmara last week, told them what they might and might not say. Declared Italy's expeditionary Commander-in-chief...
...Emilio de Bono, the Italian Commander-in-Chief. waiting to be relieved of his command rode ten miles beyond Makale toward Alaji, next important town in the Italian advance from the North. Through his huge staff telescope he could see it distinctly. He and the respectful officers round him knew that the General, about to become a Marshal, would never enter it as an Italian commander. Then the old man, leaving his Chief of Staff, General Melchiade Gabba, in command, drove through cheering lines of blackshirted Italian workmen along the roads they had just built, toward the coast and Italy...
...aged 20, Second Lieutenant Rice Means of the ist Colorado Infantry marched off to war in the Philippines. In the World War he was one of two officers not of the regular Army to be put in command of regulars. He was successively commander-in-chief of the Society of the Army of the Philippines (1913). of Veterans of Foreign Wars (1914-15), of United Spanish War Veterans (1926). After defeat for re-election to the Senate, he returned to Washington to look out for Spanish War Veterans' interests in Congress, help run their National Tribune and Stars & Stripes...