Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wounded were serious emergency cases, flown from war theaters direct to the U.S. for fuller treatment...
...retired British Major General last fortnight made his debut as a commentator in Newsweek. He was 66-year-old John Frederick Charles Fuller. His opening piece was an unmitigated condemnation of the Allied invasion of Italy as "unstrategic," and foolish...
...English Genius." A small, bald, mustached man, General Fuller was retired from the British Army in 1933 for a sharp (and justified) cry for reforms in army mechanizations. Later, he was a candidate for Parliament on Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist ticket. He argued the Axis case, appeared with a glib Briton named William Joyce, who became better known as "Lord Haw Haw" (see cut) when England faced destruction. On the war's eve, Hitler invited General Fuller to his birthday celebration. (Said Radio Berlin: ". . . The English genius...
...prolific worker, and a military commentator of worldwide reputation, General Fuller has written 24 books, including his able 1,060-page Decisive Battles: Their Influence upon History and Civilization. In this and other writings, straying from the strict military field, he has also urged a totalitarian England, called parliamentary governments "mobocracies," praised the discipline, comradeship and culture engendered by fascist dictators. Today he writes a lusty, critical weekly article for Lord Beaverbrook who enjoys a good rumpus. In his free time he applies his considerable talents to occultism...
...Washington Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, without naming Fuller, took time out to retort testily that the campaign had been a "great strategic victory." The truth, more probably, is somewhere in between...