Word: commander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four months later he was removed from his command. Secretary Knox explained, "Jim, the last time you were here you hurt the President's feelings...
...armed services can dip into a reservoir of trained men. Last week the Army and Navy underwent their biggest command shifts without audible clashing of gears. Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King finally resigned as Chief of Naval Operations-the job he had taken in December 1941, with the crack: "When they get into trouble they always send for the sons of bitches." Now his filial job was done. His successor: mild, earnest Chester Nimitz...
These were ground-gaining plays; the Army had had firm footing right along. It had a plan for merger (see chart); moreover, it was willing to accept any other plan which embodied the principles of unified command, plus an independent air force, for which even ground generals enthusiastically fought. Its mind was open to changes in detail. But the Navy had no adequate plan to replace or revise the present system of divided administration and command - aside from a report made by Financier Ferdinand Eberstadt over which Navymen themselves could not agree...
...complete elimination of civilian secretaries for the Army, for the Navy, and for the Air Forces, with the idea of reducing any tendency to separation." This was eye-to-eye with the way the Army sees today. Admiral Nimitz had also recommended increasing the authority of the proposed commander of the armed forces by eliminating the Joint Chiefs of Staff "between him and the forces that he is going to command," and had recommended the setup for peace as well as war. His testimony then had been as eloquent and convincing an argument for unification as any general or admiral...
...problems with 30 Soviet colleagues. There were three days of dinners, concerts, ballets and pep-talks. With Babbittical zeal, Marshal Georgi Zhukov strove to show the delegates that theirs was the greatest little zone in all of Germany. Said he: ". . . Our zone will, by virtue of its own achievements . . . command respect and assume a position of leadership...