Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President of the U.S. this week asked Congress for $1,130,000,000 to help arm America's European allies. Said Lieut. General Albert Wedemeyer, U.S. Army Director of Plans & Operations: "This is one of the critical moments of our history. I mean that...
...Western Europeans last week relaxed on the beaches, went fishing or drank beer in the warm evenings. But amid this summer somnolence, people anxiously waited to see how the great debate in Washington would go. The man who perhaps waited most anxiously of all was a beak-nosed French general, eight times wounded and 41 times decorated, whom few Americans knew...
...General Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny is commander in chief -theoretically-of West Europe's land forces, and the man to whom the most crucial task would fall if the Russians attacked tomorrow. He is also the most striking member of a strange military organism known as Uniforce, which for nine months has quietly tried to plan the defense of Western Europe. The progress & problems of Uniforce throw a light on the issue before the U.S. Congress...
...France's West Point, young De Lattre became a lieutenant in the dragoons. He saw action in World War I; in 1921, a captain, he began service under France's late great Marshal Hubert Lyautey in Morocco; in 1929 De Lflttre was called to the general staff. By 1939, at 50, he was the youngest general in the French army...
...Lattre was also one of the army's hardest taskmasters. A colonel who served on his staff tells a story: "One night the general returned from a staff meeting to divisional headquarters with a strategic problem. He called me in with two other officers about dinnertime, asked our views on the problem, then told us to go back and put our ideas on paper. That took us till 3 in the morning. He read all the papers, said, 'Excellent, excellent,' then talked for 30 minutes tearing them to bits. Then he divided the problem into three parts...