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...sentence of exile from his beloved Washington. A level-headed party regular whose lack of enthusiasm for some New Deal experiments has not abated his zeal helping to bring them into being, he has served his President with a loyalty which cannot well go unrewarded. The Comptroller Generalship, which John R. McCarl will vacate July 1, is believed by many to be his for the asking. In that $15,000-per-year job he would be sure of 15 more years in Washington, free from all shift of political fortune. But Mississippians who sent Pat Harrison to support a Democratic...
...understood Longstreet, and once called him affectionately "my old war horse." Longstreet did not understand Lee, and never considered him a first-rate soldier. After the Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg), where he disagreed with Lee's generalship, he became outspokenly critical of his commander. He also thought little of Stonewall Jackson. Itching for an independent command, Longstreet seized the opportunity, when he was given the Department of Southern Virginia and North Carolina, to augment his army at the expense of Lee's. Ordered to rejoin Lee before the Battle of Chancellorsville, he moved so slowly that he missed...
...Knows What Kings?" John Buchan's useful mission is to redeem the Governor-Generalship from the slough of Canadian distaste into which it sank under his predecessor, the Earl of Bessborough. If Canadians are to go on paying $43,799 a year to an official from overseas whose legal status is "the Person of the King in Canada," then they want to get something for their money. Admirers of the first Baron Tweedsmuir, while generous in their tributes to John Buchan's intellectual gifts, single out his extreme flair for effective flattery, conveyed with canny Scottish tact...
...objectives before noon. The mechanized cavalry penetrated 30 miles in less than two hours. One of the brigades on the road passed a given point in six minutes. Best of all from the standpoint of war, in which more battles are lost by ignorance than are won by good generalship, the division commander was in touch the whole time by radio or telephone with every unit of his command...
DEATH IN THE DESERT-Paul I. Wellman-Macmillan ($3). An excellent account of the last Indian wars of the U. S. Southwest and Oregon, including detailed descriptions of Indian maneuvers which throw light on the generalship of savage chieftains pitted against overwhelming odds...