Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the winter and early spring, General McNair made himself scarce around GHQuarters, batted around the country in Army planes looking over all kinds of outfits. No doctrinaire and no hell-roarer, West Pointer McNair still found plenty of fault, learned plenty about 1941-model U.S. officers and soldiers. By spring he had 21 officers on his staff, each a specialist in his branch, and G.H.Q. inspectors began to drop in on Army posts from Boston to San Diego, to see how things were going...
...coolie hurried through a little hill-squeezed village which at the moment housed D.H.Q., toward the front, up slippery footpaths to a regimental headquarters and then to a battalion headquarters. At each H.Q. he stopped to rest, overheard the officers inside their dugouts discussing great battles and whose fault it was. When the coolie moved on he climbed successive hills, on each of which he saw the great prepared scars where field guns were supposed to be. But there was no artillery...
...Some were angry at the British for bombing Syrian airports. General Henri Fernand Dentz, who is supposed to bear the British a grudge because it was his unpleasant job to turn Paris over to the Germans last summer, and thinks the fall of Paris was mostly Britain's fault, warned that he would "oppose force with force." But other Frenchmen were angry at Frenchmen-for helping the Nazis. Colonel Philibert Collet, tiny, quiet, Arab-speaking onetime Governor of Lebanon, whose wife is English and whose spirit is French but tough, last week went over to the British and Free...
...accidental visit of a magnetic aviator. His presence brings one maiden (Diana Barrymore) close to mature desire, sends another fanciful virgin (Joan Tetzel) out on an attempt at suicide, stirs up puppyish rages in the young brothers of the two. Undoubtedly the delicately written play is not at fault if it and adolescent trials nowadays seem somewhat irrelevant...
...went to France with the A.E.F., only one (the 27th) had its original commander (Major General John F. O'Ryan) at the war's end. The others, along with many a Regular Army commander, had been axed by General John J. Pershing. At the slightest sign of fault or bobble, he broke offending officers, replaced them without mercy or delay. He was hard, but so are the requirements of war, for bad generals mean lost battles and lost lines...