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...Over 70% of its men have been wounded in action and have returned; most have been shifted from other crack divisions into this super-crack division. HiD and the other divisions of the Sixth War Area (see map, p. 25) are the bailiwick of brilliant Chen Cheng, who is Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's favorite general...
There is no younger officer class in the world than that of the Generalissimo's crack divisions. Generalissimo Chiang is 53, Chen Cheng is 41, Chen's Field Chief of Staff is 34. It would be hard to find a divisional or regimental commander in those divisions over 40. Regimental colonels are sometimes in their...
...once before.) Cousin of King George and husband of famously wealthy Edwina Cynthia Ashley, Lord Louis had already had a narrow escape last year when his ship, the Javelin, was torpedoed in a Channel battle but limped safely to port. . . . Ferrying planes from factory to field in Britain was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's adopted son Chiang Wei-kuo. . . .Earthbound as a Home Guard battalion commander was Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, co-hero of the first non-stop flight from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919 with Sir John Alcock...
...Secretary General of the Falange, with Cabinet rank, the Generalissimo named José Arrese Magraz, 36, another oldtime Falangist street fighter. Arrese became the first man to hold the secretary generalship since March 1940, when Franco ousted General Muñoz Grande...
There were many guesses as to why Generalissimo Franco had thrown his weight with the Falange. One guess was that he was jockeying with France for favor with Germany; object: French Morocco. Another was that Franco had made changes long deferred while he dickered with the U.S. for food. Best guess was that he was simply strengthening his Government, replacing conservative civilians with both Falangists and Army men. The Army appointments of last month remained. Supporting this guess was a proposal in Arriba, Falangist mouthpiece: "The Falange hails the Army today and comes forward to propose, honorably, frankly and irrevocably...