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Prime Minister William Lyon Mac kenzie King last week convinced Canadi ans that ill-health was not the most important reason why flinty Lieut. General Andrew George Latta McNaughton, Commander in Chief overseas, had been retired (TIME...
Lieut. General Andrew George Latta McNaughton came home last week, feeling fighting fit and in a fighting mood. Officially because of ill health, Canada's first soldier had been retired from command of the Canadian Army overseas. When reporters saw him at Quebec's swank Seigniory Club he looked in the pink. Said he: "There is nothing wrong with me. . . . It will be up to those who made statements about my health to explain them...
...book to end all inside-dope books. Last week the President took official cognizance of 70-year-old Rudy Forster's approach to the retirement age next month by signing an executive order exempting him from the automatic retirement provision. The exemption of 73-year-old clerk Maurice Latta was extended. "This is permanent," wrote the President to modest, clam-mouthed Rudy Forster. "I do not want either of you to leave me as long as I am here...
...commands the Canadians in World War II was a soldier in World War I, and he is determined to lead Canadians back to France. Lieut. General Andrew George Latta McNaughton says often and in many ways that his Canadian Army Overseas is a dagger pointed at the heart of Berlin. He knows where he wants to thrust the dagger. His ideas may or may not coincide with those of the Allied high command, and with its plans for the Canadians. But wherever he is, at the British War Office or at U.S. headquarters in London, General McNaughton always has with...
Which Front? Back in Britain after a visit to Ottawa and the White House, Canada's Lieut. General Andrew George Latta McNaughton was preaching invasion through France and expanding his Canadian Corps into a full army. In Northern Ireland were several thousand U.S. troops, rarin' to go and practicing invasion tactics. More were coming: an Army colonel announced that Boston was to be an embarkation point for many troops and supplies (see p. 16). One subject of discussion was drastically intensified bombing of western Germany by both British and U.S. flyers...