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Turn of the Wheel. He was not master of his house in BuAer. He got no credit for cutting administrative corners to procure new planes which paid off after Pearl Harbor: the Dauntless, the Avenger, the Hellcat. He became Commander, Air, Pacific (in 1942) and it looked like the fulfillment...
Turkey. "I thought it right to speak bluntly today," he said. Bluntly he spoke: Turkey, wishing the Allies well, had nevertheless misjudged the Allies' chances and refused to come in against Germany. "We have, therefore, with great regret, discontinued the process of arming Turkey because it looks probable that...
One clue that invasion might be near was in the office of Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, chief of the Army Service Forces. His orders had been to procure and ship more than 100,000 items needed for the Army's pre-invasion stockpile, from shoelaces to tanks. By last...
What Is a Power? London's weekly Economist has usefully defined a Great Power: "... a country capable of waging active and autonomous war against another Great Power. . . . For a country to be beyond question a Great Power, it must be able to fight with its own resources - not necessarily...
The purpose of the University is nothing less than to procure a moral, intellectual and spiritual revolution throughout the world. The whole scale of values by which our society lives must be reversed. . . . [It is] the crusade to which we are called.