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...head man, Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, was the commander in chief of the military forces of the five West European nations who (in the Brussels pact last year) had decided to stand together against aggression. It would in all likelihood serve as the nucleus of the GHQ of the North Atlantic nations' joint forces...
Operation Pearson proceeds in a supercharged atmosphere of tapped wires, shadowed cars, anonymous phone calls and secret files-and he glories in it. The GHQ, his combined home and office, is a cluster of yellow brick buildings on a quiet corner in Georgetown. Its head man, "DP" in the office lingo, is up at 6:30 a.m. in bathrobe and slippers, to tinker with a first draft of The Column. Precisely at 8 he shaves, turning the bathroom radio to an NBC news roundup that often brings the voice of his brother Leon, a commentator, from Paris...
...last week the Greek Supreme National Defense Council finally agreed with American military advisers that a new commander, rather than more American supplies, was needed to speed up the campaign. Their choice: Lieut. General Stelios Kitrilakis, deputy chief of staff at Athens GHQ and main author of the plan for Operation Coronet. As Kitrilakis took over, the stalemate broke. Greek assault troops broke through the old rebel defense line and kept on going...
...Hour Day. In Look's Fifth Avenue GHQ, the two have offices to match their personalities. Mike Cowles, deliberate, slow-spoken, has a sedate, paneled, 13th-floor office, a neat, clean desk. His wife's, eight floors below, has bright lime-yellow walls, a royal blue rug and a littered blond mahogany semicircular desk. Fleur dresses dramatically, sports an uncut emerald ring as big as a horse chestnut, talks fast and crisply, smokes and likes Scotch & soda. Both she and Mike wear black hornrimmed glasses. In their spare time, Mike plays tennis ("enormously good," says Fleur), while...
...Armed Forces radio was told by headquarters that such information as the formation of "Veterans Against MacArthur" clubs was "controversial" and should not be broadcast. The same order went to the Army's Stars & Stripes. When the censorship was reported back to the U.S., the ban was lifted. GHQ explained that the general had not known about it, that he had given orders that the Japanese and the Army's press and radio wires be permitted to report any U.S. political attacks...