Word: generalships
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...formidable array of Red generalship that faced the Germans: Konev, Malinovsky and Zhukov in the south; Rokossovsky and Bagramian further north; Popov, Meretskov and the liberator of Leningrad, Leonid Govorov, poised for attack on the Baltic countries...
...friendly legislative committee for which he had worked. As district attorney, he guided through the legislature a bill vastly increasing the powers of the state attorney general, and raising the pay from $6,000 to $11,000 a year. His next step up was to the attorney generalship...
...Record. The 42 service years that elevated George C. Marshall from a lieutenancy to the most responsible generalship of modern history are as dependable, as unadventurous and as sound as the man. He served in the Philippines and in China, ended his World War I career as Chief of Staff of the Eighth Army Corps, was from 1919 to 1924 aide-de-camp to General Pershing, taught extensively in various army colleges, again & again returned to active command positions with the troops (last such assignment: commanding general, Fifth Brigade, Vancouver...
...Italy the Wehrmacht's generalship and soldiery had been superb. However badly the Allied command may have miscalculated the total effects, the sudden Italian surrender last September dangerously exposed the Nazi line across southern Europe. But the Wehrmacht had anticipated the Anglo-American landing at Salerno, thereby scotched the Allied plan for a sweep to Rome. It accurately gauged the Badoglio Government's weakness. It understood the possibilities of terrain and weather, knew how to capitalize on them. It won time to build a vicious, vexing defense in depth...
Soul's Patience. Rome was still 78 miles away, not much nearer than it was a month ago. Once Americans and British had hoped to be in the capital by Christmas ; now they saw only many bitter days ahead. The Nazi press twitted the Allies on faulty generalship, on lost "opportunity" that will "never return...