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Mission to Rome. In September 1943, with invasion imminent, Italy wanted desperately to surrender to the Allies. The Italians under Marshal Badoglio maintained that the 82nd could capture Rome by making a surprise landing. General Dwight Eisenhower assigned Taylor and Air Corps Colonel William T. Gardiner to check out the scheme by going to Rome...
...Field Marshal Napoleon. MacArthur first came to the Philippines in 1903 as a second lieutenant fresh out of West Point. (His father, General Arthur MacArthur, served as last military governor of the islands.) The lieutenant spent a year engineering sea walls, wharves and roads, came back briefly in 1923 and then in 1928 as a brigadier general commanding all U.S. troops in the Philippines. In 1935 MacArthur finished up a five-year stint as the youngest U.S. Army chief of staff. His next job: Philippines military adviser, with the rank of field marshal in the Philippine army. Foreseeing the coming...
Lost in Battle. The negotiations in Geneva also seemed stuck among the clouds. Declared Red China's Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi contemptuously: "I cannot understand why the United States is trying to win at a conference what it has already lost on the battlefield." With the talks thoroughly deadlocked, U.S. Delegate Averell Harriman invited the pro-Western Minister of Defense, General Phoumi Nesavan. and "Neutralist" Prince Souvanna Phouma to Washington, apparently hoping to get them together on some kind of acceptable coalition government. General Phoumi came, talked to President Kennedy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary...
Mostly political and military writers, the group heard a welcome by J. Hampden Robb, University Marshal, and were ushered through two of the University's proudest possessions...
...assignment of policing the ceasefire. In the absence of instruction and equipment, the I.C.C. had not budged from its headquarters in Vientiane. In reply, Gromyko was almost insolent. He saw no need for additional equipment for the I.C.C., and he and Red China's Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi took turns denouncing the U.S. for "provoking" new attacks. Instead, Gromyko proposed that the conference move on to other matters. "One cannot sit indefinitely on the shores of Lake Geneva counting the swans," he complained...