Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Air Forces' Commanding General, he had fought the good fight for a separate air arm. When the fight was won, he had become the independent Air Force's first Chief of Staff. Last week, following the earlier example of Hap Arnold, Jimmy Doolittle and others of the little group of pioneer U.S. birdmen, Tooey Spaatz retired...
...replace him, Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington chose Spaatz's second in command, General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, 49. A favored nephew of Michigan's influential senior senator, Gen. Vandenberg rates as an able, affable officer, long on administrative ability, short on personal force...
Russia last week was hotting up its propaganda barrage against Scandinavia. In Moscow, the Red Fleet accused Swedish General Helge Jung, commander in chief of the Swedish armed forces, of trying "to use the Swedish armed forces as an appendage of the American military machine and to subject the foreign policy of Sweden to the expansionist activities of the U.S. in northern Europe." Izvestia warned Norway that "the Marshall Plan holds nothing good for Norway except that it endangers her independence and is fraught with her complete subjugation to foreign imperialists...
...reply to such pressure, the commander in chief of the Finnish army, General Aarne Sihvo, suspended army leaves and increased guards around munitions dumps-to prevent, he said, "burglaries and damage by spring fires...
...chiefs in the U.S., General Clay had radioed this assurance: "We will sit tight. We will not be provocative. . . . Evacuation to me is unthinkable." At week's end several U.S. and British freight trains got through to Berlin without being challenged. And, finally, the Russians grudgingly agreed to meet with the Western Powers to "clarify" their terms, if not alter them. For a time, it appeared, there would be an uneasy truce-until the Russians probed elsewhere. Patience and firmness had paid off again...