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Winston Churchill had kept the job for himself until he could find the right man to fill it. This week, having found the man, and secured his release from another job, Churchill picked Field Marshal the Viscount Alexander of Tunis to be Britain's Minister of Defense. The chief, unpublicized intent of Churchill's recent visit to Canada was to get Alexander, who will leave his post as Governor General of Canada later this month to join Churchill's cabinet. His five-year term had already been temporarily extended twice while Canadians looked for a replacement...
MAJOR GENERAL HANS SPEIDEL, also 55, who was chief of staff to Field Marshal Rommel in France, later imprisoned for complicity in the 1944 bomb plot against Hitler, and liberated by the French army. A straight-backed man who thinks like a general but looks like a professor (after the war he taught history at Tübingen University), Speidel is the big military brain of revived West Germany. In his postwar memoirs (Invasion 1944), he showed a familiar German military rationalization-that the army would have won if it had not been stabbed in the back (in this case...
...Daley '27, president of the Harvard Club of Andover, will serve as Chief Marshal of the alumni at the 1952 Commencement, William M. Rand '09, president of the Alumni Association, announced last week...
...selection follows the tradition of choosing the Chief Marshal from the 25th anniversary class...
...undergraduate here he played on the football team, was a member of the student council, and was elected First Marshal of his class...