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...national clamor [Gallup poll: 49%] for a united high command of the Army & Navy, had been answered by the Presidential appointment of a "generalissimo" whose job Mr. Roosevelt now defined as that of a mere "legman...
...nation, through its press, demanded a united command, headed by a generalissimo. President Roosevelt made a limited response by finally naming Admiral William D. Leahy as his own personal Chief of Staff (TIME, July 27). But what were Admiral Leahy's duties, what were his rights, what his responsibilities? Chief of Staff to the Commander in Chief sounded at first like a huge...
...Generalissimo Leahy was a legman. The editor was still Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
First reports indicated that General Ma, whose clan holds the power of potentates among China's 15,000,000 Moslems, had submitted to banishment by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Actually the "banishment" was a tribute to the Gissimo's policy of giving Moslem leaders authority with responsibility. For it was General Ma who in 1937-39 dismounted his cavalry and put them to building the Kansu-Sinkiang highway over which Russian supplies traveled to the Chinese army. Now, with Russia embattled and the Burma Road closed, General Ma was again being asked to do the impossible. Nearly cornered, China...
...official review listed the A.V.G. score: 284 Jap planes destroyed in seven months, as many more probably destroyed, ten A.V.G. pilots and one crew chief killed in action, nine flyers killed in accidents. An A.V.G. squadron had a last flight, shooting down at least six Japs over Hengyang. The Generalissimo gave a dinner for General Chennault. Then, as they all knew it must, came July 4 and with it the formal end of the American Volunteer Group...