Word: pattonism
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...Lidice. After Germany's defeat, Benes took his regime to Prague and started anew. He faced tremendous obstacles. At the Yalta Conference in 1945, Roosevelt and Churchill acceded to Stalin's demand that Czechoslovakia fall into his sphere of influence after the war. As a result, when General George Patton's tanks prepared to liberate Prague in the war's closing days, orders came from Allied headquarters to halt. The Russians got the honor of freeing the capital. In their wake came cadres of Czechoslovak Communists who had spent the war in Moscow. Aided by the presence of the Soviet...
...Word. White House telegrams went to all directors of all steel companies, and the Federal Trade Commission briefly threatened to open an investigation. Over the weekend, the heads of three big defense suppliers-Bethlehem's Martin, C. William Verity of Armco and Thomas Patton of Republic -were summoned to Washington for talks with Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius. Before long, their companies were issuing statements that across-the-board did not actually include shell steel, bomb casings, barbed wire and other military items. Defense, for its part, quickly claimed victory...
...lieutenant colonel commanding the 37th Battalion of General George S. Patton's 4th Armored Division, Abrams was Patton's point man, led the victorious Allied sweep across Europe from France to Czechoslovakia in 1944-45. Abrams was the only tanker, in fact, who Patton ever admitted might be his equal. In the lead tank of the 37th sat Abrams himself, often far out in front of the nearest U.S. units that could provide aid if his tanks got into trouble. "I like to be out on the point where there's nothing but me and the goddam...
...Museum, of which Dr. Nathan I. Huggins is chairman and J. Marcus Mitchell curator, has just opened a substantial new exhibition, divided between the visual arts and documentary materials. Among the former is a selection of African sculpture and objets d'art from the collection of Kenneth Patton. More important, however, are the items of American provenance. Two of these are huge polychrome portrait quilts crafted by a group of southern Negroes who migrated to California...
...never a war hero or even much of a combat vet eran. He had only five months of frontline infantry service during World War II, and even that was a staff assignment; during the Korean War, he was assigned to the Pentagon and Trieste. Though all too clearly no Patton type, he is known nonetheless as the most gifted tank officer that the JCS has ever had-based on his cool performance in the second-floor Pentagon "tank," where the Joint Chiefs meet thrice weekly by themselves and confer each Monday with McNamara and Deputy Secretary Cyrus Vance. Wheeler...