Word: mediterraneans
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...Helped form the Mediterranean Port Committee, which wrested control of French, Italian and Greek ports from the Communists...
...From Greece the general went to Italy, whose leaders were distressed by the reports that Greek and Turkish soldiers did not want to serve under Italy's General Maurizio de Castiglione, commander of NATO's southern Europe land forces. Instead, they will probably report directly to the Mediterranean naval commander, U.S. Admiral Robert B. Carney...
...Mick" Carney's fleet, the warships of four nations, was bobbing in Naples harbor after a week of brisk maneuvers during which former allies and enemies had worked together in smooth efficiency over the western Mediterranean. One incident had marred the maneuvers. When a British commander wanted an Italian commander to stop sending messages in code, he sent word: "Use plain language." The Italian thought his idiom was being criticized, and froze into sulky silence. Carney ruled that henceforth the proper NATO instruction should be "Do not encode...
...Consolidated Vultee directors elected General Joseph T. McNarney (ret.), 59, as their president. McNarney was top U.S. general in the Mediterranean theater in 1944-45, later commanded all U.S. forces in Europe. After war's end, he was boss of procurement and research for the Air Force at Wright Field, and from 1949 to his retirement this year, he was chairman of the Department of Defense Management Committee, a top-level military coordinating group. At Convair he succeeds La Motte Turck Cohu, 56, president since 1948, who becomes vice chairman of the board under Chairman Floyd Odlum...
...Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME...