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Last December Lieut. General Andrew G. L. McNaughton resigned as commander of Canada's overseas armies and came home. Last week at 57, after 34 years of soldiering, he asked to be retired from the Army. The National Defense Ministry was almost effusive: "Canada will be forever grateful." Then it upped Andy McNaughton to the rank of full General,* gave him an estimated $12,000 yearly retirement...
...told, out loud, the real reason why General McNaughton had resigned his overseas command. But last week in his small Ottawa apartment, Andy McNaughton talked. He had resigned his command, he said, because he had wanted to keep his Army, stationed in Britain, intact. The National Defense Ministry, yielding to complaints from impatient Canadians, decided to divide the Army, send a corps to Italy to fight...
...General. Some Canadian forces were finally sent to Sicily and Italy, where they distinguished themselves at Catania and Ortona. Meanwhile McNaughton had not endeared himself to the British by his struggle to keep his Canadians intact as an Army. And, being as tough as flint, whenever he encountered steely Montgomery, sparks flew. (McNaughton's Canadians called Montgomery "God Almonty...
Last winter McNaughton resigned, giving ill health as the reason (TIME, Jan. 3). The man picked to succeed him was Henry Crerar, then commander of the I Canadian Corps. Publicity-hating General Crerar was almost unknown to the Canadian people, and since many Canadians do not think that being colorful is good form, Ottawa war councilors made no effort to color him up. Although Crerar used to be so reticent that he had no cronies and few close acquaintances, he did become fast friends with Montgomery and renewed his old friendship (from World War I) with Field Marshal Sir Alan...
...learned them, at Kingston. In 1916 he had married a handsome Toronto girl in London. They have a married daughter, and a 21-year-old son, Peter, who is a lieutenant with the Canadians in Italy. Crerar pere was in Italy when he got the call to replace McNaughton in London. He could not tell Peter he was leaving, but-he admitted in a rare burst of confidence to a correspondent-he "gave his hand an extra squeeze...