Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson, (weight: 224 lbs.) Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission in Washington, who was Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean...
Thought that any later joint police action with lesser powers should be on an "ostensible" basis...
...permanent staff composed of these four military chiefs, serving (like the war-emergency Joint Chiefs of Staff) as advisers to the Secretary and the President...
Civilians Supreme. Opponents had argued that merger would mean a "derogation" of civilian authority, but Harry Truman took the opposite view. To his way of thinking, civilian secretaries of separate departments tend to become the partisans of their respective services; final decision consequently devolved upon the uniformed Joint Chiefs of Staff. Civilian control would be strengthened under "one Cabinet member with clear and primary responsibility for the exercise of that control." Said the President: "The American people . . . need have no fear that their democratic liberties will be imperiled so long as they continue fulfilling their duties of citizenship...
...State Dean Acheson and Dr. Juan Negrin, last Premier of the Spanish Republic, had the first official talks to be held between a high-ranking State Department officer and a high-ranking Spanish Republican in six years. The French Foreign Office sent Washington and London a note suggesting a joint revision (i.e. a possible rupture) in relations with Franco's Spain...