Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indirect suggestion that the French pay more attention to the old military axiom: take the high ground. The President went on to recall a remark he made to a visiting Frenchman-presumably General Paul Ely, Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces: if he-Ike-were in command, Colonel Christian de Castries, commander of the Dienbienphu defenders (see FOREIGN NEWS), would have been a general day before yesterday. More than admiration for De Castries was contained in this. The President's easy observation was a reflection of the U.S. military view that engagements as important as Dienbienphu call...
Aerial Parades. As Jungk enters Omaha's Offutt Air Force Base, headquarters of the Strategic Air Command, he duly notes beside the gate the Latin motto, Mors Ab Alto-"Death from on high." In place of the real story of SAC's courage and foresight, he sifts out another kind of conclusion. "The heavens," he writes, "have become a vast parade ground on which a general gives his orders with the bark of a sergeant-major...
DDay: Communist Commanding General Vo Nguyen Giap opens fire against Dienbienphu's two airstrips, supply dumps, parked aircraft and battalion-command posts. At 1700 hours, he concentrates 105-mm. fire-one shell every six seconds-against two French battalions on top of two 1,500-ft. hills to the northeast and the north of Dienbienphu. The French call these hill positions Beatrice and Gabrielle. A direct hit knocks out the For eign Legion command post on Beatrice. De Castries radios Indo-China command in far-off (180 miles) Hanoi: "The attack has begun...
Communist has found, like Branko, that life as a party member is not all slivovitz and skittles. The Zagreb congress officially decreed that henceforth, the prime mission of Yugoslavia's Communists was not to command but to persuade. In one swoop it sent down the drain the hopes of all those who had joined the party in search of prestige, power and patronage. Today a good Tito Communist is expected not only to tread the delicate ideological line between Russian Stalinism and Western capitalism, but to spend a good part of his time attending ward meetings, canvassing his neighbors...
...deeply of a black knitted Arab cap found behind the war memorial, and gave them their heads. By nightfall the baying hounds had reached a point six miles from the Jordan border. "Investigations are not complete, and this case cannot be prejudged," said a U.S. officer of the Armistice Command. But the trail was proof enough for Israel's government that the deed had been done by Arabs from Jordan. Israel officials summoned the U.N.'s truce-supervision chief, Major General Vagn Bennike, demanded "drastic measures," and insisted, "You must bring the Jordan government to task...