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...Colonel (ret.), U.S. Army Rocky Mount...
...counter them, before a House Armed Services subcommittee last week came Major General (ret.) Ellard A. Walsh. 69. National Guard Association president, and twelve Guard generals. Acceding to the Army directive on most points, Minnesota's Walsh demanded one privilege: eleven weeks' training for the 17-18½-year-olds from whom the Guard draws "the bulk of our enlistees." If it is forced to surrender that final prerogative, warned Walsh, the National Guard will ''have had the kiss of death placed upon...
...Charlie's latest hit the front pages, the predictable sound-off began in virtually every state. Some called Charlie's statement asinine, illadvised, ridiculous, foolish and absurd. Georgia's governor rapped it as "a dastardly slur," Wyoming's as "an un-American utterance." Major General (ret.) Ellard A. Walsh, 69, president of the potent National Guard Association, called it "a damned lie." The South Carolina house of representatives passed a resolution declaring it an "insult" to the state, and the Rhode Island senate passed one calling it "a gross and unwarranted insult" to the Guard...
Died. Major General Robert Alexis McClure, 59, U.S. Army (ret.), who organized SHAEF's Psychological Warfare Branch in 1944, shelled and bombed Germans with 3.5 billion pamphlets, broadcast front-line surrender appeals from loudspeaker-equipped tanks; of a coronary thrombosis: in Fort Huachuca, Ariz...
Died. Vice Admiral (ret.) Wilson Brown, 74, U.S.N., naval aide to Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman, onetime superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (1938-41), who led a task force in the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942, won a Distinguished Service Medal; in Groton, Conn...