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...General Boyer de Latour, carried out Faure's orders only as he saw fit. Rather than institute the three-man regency council that Faure had proposed, De Latour let Sultan Moulay Ben Arafa delegate his powers to a cousin. "Whom does General de Latour obey-your government or Marshal Juin or [Defense Minister] Koenig?" demanded the Socialists...
...which made the story so plausible have been adequately attested. U.S. and British investigation of Hitler's death did rot even begin until long after the Russians had made their own inquiry and carted off most of the evidence. "From personal and official knowledge," said Russia's Marshal Zhukov, then commander of Berlin, "we can say that Hitler had good opportunities to make a getaway with his bride." No official Russian report was ever forthcoming to indicate what that knowledge was; no eyewitnesses stepped forward to refute or endorse it. Instead a host of rumors and lesser legends...
...apparatus will make it easier for the President to get in and out of bed when he is allowed to walk. Lieut. Knox read to him from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sir Nigel, one of Ike's favorite books. Mamie Eisenhower brought one message, from Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, to Ike's attention: "I just now learned of your illness and received this news with the deepest feelings of sorrow. With all our hearts my family and I wish you a speedy recovery and long life...
...August 1915, Lieut. John Harding led a platoon against the Turks at Gallipoli, where British forces, too little and too late, were defeated. This week Harding, now a field marshal and retiring chief of the Imperial General Staff, returned to the eastern Mediterranean to repair the damage done in Cyprus by too little diplomacy too late. Sir John's appointment as governor of Cyprus, the headquarters of Britain's Middle East armed forces, was notice that Britain meant to crack down on violence stirred up in the name of enosis (union) with Greece...
...Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embry is a pugnacious and uncompromising airman with a fine World War II battle record and a reputation for talking out of school...