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...President of the West German Republic (currently 70-year-old Theodor Heuss) will presumably be commander-in-chief, delegating authority to a civilian-defense minister (probably Blank). Number of generals: 35 to 40 (there were 1,400 in 1945). If and when German forces come under NATO, British Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery will supervise their training. In the field they will serve under NATO's Supreme Commander in Europe, General Alfred M. Gruenther of the U.S., and his European ground-forces commander, Marshal Alphonse Juin of France. Timetable: If the go-ahead comes soon, the first West German soldiers...
...urgency about Trieste. Washington and London decided to break the stalemate, but their first attempt failed. Assured by Anthony Eden that Tito would not object, the U.S. and Britain announced last October that they were withdrawing their troops from Zone A forthwith and turning it over to the Italians. Marshal Tito flared with anger over the failure to consult him and threatened war if Italian troops moved into Trieste...
...first time since their dramatic divorce in 1948, Russia and Marshal Tito's Communist Yugoslavia agreed last week to resume doing business. In Belgrade the two governments signed a short-term agreement, bartering Russian crude oil, manganese, cotton and newsprint for Yugoslavian ethyl alcohol, tobacco, meat and hemp. Tito had also hoped to get some wheat for Yugoslavia, but the Russians, who have been having serious trouble with grain production (TIME. June 14), confessed that they had none to spare...
...point will come in the next paragraph. He can be bafflingly bland. Sample (from his autobiographical account of his first trip to Moscow in 1936): "Unfortunately, my visit preceded by a few weeks the big purges, which removed a number of [the leading men] I had contacted, notably Marshal Tukhachevski." Attlee could walk with Dante through hell and emerge remarking that "different people had different tastes, but it did seem rather...
...ambitions from childhood. Shortly after the family had settled in North Africa, her mother died. From that time, Isabelle's life was in the desert. She was accepted by the Arabs as a man, earned a reputation as a war correspondent, and became so knowledgeable that the great Marshal Lyautey (who was reputed to be her lover) said: "No one knows Africa as she does." Another eyewitness says of her: "She was an alcoholic [but] deeply religious . . . She was passionate, sensual, but not in a woman's way. And she was completely flat-chested . . . When...