Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against prompt charges of political censorship, the Maryland board argued: "Immorality . . . extends to the entire moral code"; therefore, a film "based upon deceit and misrepresentation" could be banned as a "moral breach." Prodded by the Baltimore Sunpapers, Governor W. Preston Lane Jr. asked his attorney general whether the censors were within their legal powers. Ruled Attorney General Hall Hammond...
...GENERAL KENNEY REPORTS (594 pp.)−George C. Kenney - Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
...ever a general had his work cut out him, it was George Churchill Kenney he reported for duty to Douglas MacArthur in Australia. The Allied Air he was to command in the South Pacific seemed hopelessly outnum by the Japanese. MacArthur told flatly that his new command was in combat and that he had no for its top officers. It looked as if MacArthur was right. The next day at noon, Kenney looking on, 27 Jap planes attacked a U.S. airdrome near Port Mores New Guinea. The Japs got away without being touched by U.S. fighters. Even the antiaircraft shooting...
Readers looking for high-level inside stuff on the war in the Pacific will not it here. General Kenney Reports is essentially a fighting man's story, the day-to-day record of jobs to be done, the planes sent up to do them, U.S. and enemy losses. But in at least one respect, brusque George Kenney is more forthright than any of the high brass have been in books far. Those he considered incompetent he calls by name, and some of them were generals...
...MacArthur. Hardest hit by Kenney's free-swinging, almost casual criticism is General Richard K. Sutherland, Arthur's wartime chief of staff (since retired). Admitting that Sutherland was "smart," Kenney also says that "an unfortunate bit of arrogance, combined with his egotism, had made him almost universally disliked . . . Sutherland was inclined to overemphasize his smattering of knowledge of aviation." The showdown came during the very first week, when Sutherland tried to write the orders for Kenney's first big show. Writes Kenney: "I told him that I was running the Air Force because I was the most...