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Your military editor needs to polish up his Civil War history. In TIME (Feb. 17) occurs this statement: "Failure to do just that (keep his enemy rolling) is an occupational disease among generals, who often have a fatal weakness for consolidation after partial victory-e.g., Meade after Gettysburg, Lee after Manassas I and II." It so happens that Lee was not in command at the First Battle of Manassas. The Confederates were commanded by Beauregard, who was joined by Joseph E. Johnston and later in the afternoon by Kirby Smith. Stonewall Jackson, looking over the field after the battle...
...even the strongest assurances of Greek resolution could scarcely have been more than a partial relief to Anthony Eden's-and Britain's-Balkan anxiety. For last week another potential bar to Adolf Hitler's southeastern drive-Yugoslavia-seemed likely to prove just about as flimsy as Bulgaria proved a fortnight...
Nominations of Seniors to be elected to the offices of First, Second, and Third Marshals, Treasurer, Chorister, Orator, Poet, and Odist, and Partial nominations for Secretary and for members of the Class Day and Permanent Class Committees were made yesterday by the Nominating Committee headed by Elliot L. Richardson...
Sandy MacMillan made the only solo of the evening when he got a partial break-away close to the cage late in the first period and snapped one in from the side...
Whether or not the British take Tripoli, General Sir Archibald Wavell had accomplished a brilliant tactical triumph. He had rolled up his enemy and then kept him rolling. Failure to do just that is an occupational disease among generals, who often have a fatal weakness for consolidation after partial victory-e.g., Meade after Gettysburg, Lee after Manassas I and II. For the first time in this war the Axis had run up against someone who could hit hard and follow through...