Word: commander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...programs were of white silk, printed in gold. In the royal box sat King George V and Queen Mary. It was a command performance, honoring their coronation...
...made and there is a moral-pointing prologue: "This is the tragic story of Amber St. Clare. Slave to ambition, stranger to virtue. Fated to find the wealth and power she ruthlessly gained wither to ashes in the fires lit by passion and fed by defiance of the eternal command. The wages of sin is death...
...Chinese government needed a field general with the habit of success. Last week Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek thought he had found just the man. To the post of military commander for all North China, with headquarters in Peiping, he called bulletheaded, bland-eyed, 53-year-old General Fu Tso-yi from his "pacification" command in Chahar...
...task in his new command would be bigger and bleaker than it had been in the northwest. Even Fu's military and political sense could not entirely offset the lack of prompt U.S. help. But Fu's appointment would be well regarded even by one of China's sternest critics. U.S. Secretary of State Marshall had said: "Fu is a real soldier . . . when he says he can do something, I believe him." Last week Fu said: "We will move quickly, keep active on all fronts...
...experiences in Naples, Charles Christian Wertenbaker's story of the French Forces of the Interior (Write Sorrow on the Earth), Godfrey Blunden's novel of Moscow and Muscovites in their grim winters of war and political despair (A Room on the Route). William Wister Haines's Command Decision, a tense story of hard choices at an A.A.F. headquarters, was made into a hit play on Broadway. The Steeper Cliff, David Davidson's novel of a search for the meaning of intellectual courage in postwar Germany, was the best fictional attempt to treat of the problems...