Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have always held the reporting in TIME as something to be used as the final court of information in any discussion of current events or personalities. However, the issue of April 5 certainly presents a distorted review ' of General Stilwell's historical notes which appear in the current issue of Ladies' Home Journal...
Your vinegarish report on General Joseph W. Stilwell moves me to quote a bit from the Bard...
Chennault's refutation of General Stilwell's record is emasculated in its own turn by the fact that . . . [he] presently makes a very handsome living from the operation of an airline which lifts relief supplies for the Chinese government. It is not likely that he would jeopardize his livelihood by voicing anything but fulsome praise for Chiang...
...General Stilwell, as his memoirs manifest, was neither polemicist nor stylist, but in his own unembellished manner he has expressed the very acute problem which remains to plague us even at the present. How may we, in our anxiety to triumph over an enemy, insure that we do not become identified with an equally reprehensible and unregenerate ally ? The current issue over Communism has come down to us from the wartime practices in which we sought to strengthen an ally now become an enemy...
...Package from Texas. The Army's Chief of Staff, General Omar Bradley, tried to disabuse them on that score. The question of U.M.T., he said, bore no relation to the fight over air groups. The U.M.T. decision lay between a modest-size standing army of 932,000 men supplemented by a U.M.T.-fed National Guard-or a much bigger Army than anyone wanted to contemplate. He estimated that without U.M.T., for "the barest type of security," the Army would have to be raised to at least...