Word: commands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Command Decisions. Ike was in no mood to bargain, and he took pains at his 101st press conference to make clear that Dulles would stay on the job. The critics, he noted, talked only generally about blunders and lack of leadership, but made "no constructive proposals for what even should have been done with the benefit of hindsight." As for Dulles, he had been training for his job ever since his grandfather was Secretary of State, and "during those years he studied and acquired a wisdom and experience and knowledge that I think is possessed by no man-no other...
Both Dulles and he had made mistakes, Ike conceded, but he had had no reason to change his high opinion of the Secretary of State. And in any event, said he, sending his definition of command responsibility ringing round Capitol Hill and the world: "Secretary Dulles . . . has never taken any action which I have not in advance approved. I insist again that these matters are not taken spasmodically, impulsively. They are not policies developed off of top-of-the-head thinking. They take weeks and weeks, and when they come out, and are applied, they have my approval from...
Duly invited by Supreme Commander Lauris Norstad to fill its first big NATO post, Bonn last week nominated Lieut. General Hans Speidel, 59, to the Central European land-forces command. Thus U.S., British and French divisions in Germany will now pass under the command of a man who fought against them in two wars. The French, who might have been expected to make a fuss, were already taken care of; only in Britain, which will have four divisions under Speidel's command, could there be heard the suppressed sound of tight-throat swallowing...
...Danes, Belgians and Dutch by criticizing French plans to defend Europe only as far east as the Rhine. He made himself so agreeable throughout NATO's top echelons, in fact, that the Germans had practically no choice but to name him to the new job-his first field command since he bossed a Grenadier battalion in his native Württemberg 21 years...
What was the point of "Operation Jubilee"? Was the Italian radio correct in saying that the "British High Command did not even know what it hoped to achieve"? The British claimed that the assault "provided vital information" for the Normandy invasion, but the principal discoveries seem to have been merely 1) that the Germans built excellent fortifications, 2) that Intelligence must show a lot more intelligence, 3) that infantry attacking heavily fortified positions needs heavy covering fire...