Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee's report leaned heavily on the secret testimony given three weeks ago by Lieut. General Leslie Groves, wartime chief of atomic development. General Groves was sure that Russia "and its misguided and traitorous domestic sympathizers or stooges" had tried hard to get vital atomic information. Had Russia been successful? Said General Groves: "I imagine that it was successful to a certain degree. You never know what the other fellow finds...
...Lieut. General Curtis LeMay, Air Force chief in Europe, had called for a special 24-hour effort. The entire load was to be coal, to be distributed as an Air Force birthday present to families with two or more children in the Western sectors of Berlin...
This week cigar-chomping Curtis LeMay was called back to Washington to take over the Strategic Air Command, succeeding General George C. Kenney. His successor in Wiesbaden: pugnacious Lieut. General John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 56, brilliant wartime commander of all Allied air forces in the Mediterranean...
...been appeased. Hyderabad, which was never really out of India, is now indisputably part of India. There have been no terrible outbreaks of communal violence. The Nizam, who capitulated in four days and 13 hours, satisfied the demands of his ego for at least a token fight. Said Lieut. General Sir Maharaj Rajendrasinghji, the Indian generalissimo: "It is not our job to hurt anybody who is law-abiding." This presumably included the Hyderabad army. There were no casualty reports (by the best available count, twelve Indian soldiers were killed...
...weeks ago, it was finally and formally agreed that China's struggle was indeed part of the world struggle against Communism. The agreement came after repeated pleas from men like Defense Secretary James Forrestal, Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, the State Department's Policy Planner George F. Kennan. The only value of this belated acknowledgment would be in its public proclamation-to tell the world that Washington had at last waked up to the fact that "coalition" with the Communists always led to Communist control...