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...floating command" aimed at China and the Jap homeland, under Admiral Nimitz...
...will be news to other collectors of old prints that Admiral Nimitz has one, 1260 A.D. (Your illustration in TIME...
...centralization under a single supreme command was urgently needed now, the need would become all the more pressing when MacArthur's drive met Admiral Nimitz at the Philippines or when it met General Stilwell's on the coast of China, or when any of the American commands was lapped in the Pacific by Admiral Mountbatten's long-predicted drive east from Ceylon...
...Navy professed to see no need for unification. It obviously hoped that, when unified command came, an admiral, probably able, steady Chester W. Nimitz, would become top dog. It was plain that if MacArthur got the Philippines back, and Stilwell got to the China coast, both would be stuck until the Navy ferried? them over to Japan. The Navy could afford to let the situation develop...
...Chenankwan on the French Indo-China border. If they ever got there, East China, with its bases from which Chennault's hard-driven aviators harass the enemy from Shanghai to Formosa to Hainan, would be lost. From such a catastrophe, the Pacific commands of General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz would suffer almost as much as the Chinese...