Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your staff of ace-high political writers outdid themselves in TIME, July...
Andrews Up. The Air Corps felt as flattered as the man last week when Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews, for four years chief of G. H. Q. Air Force, was named Assistant Chief of Staff of the whole Army, in charge of Operations & Training, first flying general ever attached to the General Staff...
...instance, has such a man in its new Chief of Staff George Marshall, who, as chief of staff of the First Army, ably disposed the troops in the greatest battle in which the U. S. ever participated, the Meuse-Argonne. British Chief of the Imperial General Staff Lord Gort showed no great strategic ability in France but some incredible heroism, for which he won a V. C. But by far the most outstanding War-trained officer now in high command is Maurice Gustave Gamelin. At 66 he is the head of what, by almost unanimous acclaim, is today the world...
...became orderly officer to General Joffre, then commander of the 6th Infantry Division in Paris. In 1912, when Joffre was promoted to the Supreme War Council, Gamelin was chosen as Joffre's chef de cabinet, or military secretary. During this time the French General Staff was discussing (but only discussing) the possibility of a German violation of Belgian neutrality to attack France. Gamelin made a study of it and wrote out a defense of such an attack. That was the germ of Joffre's Instruction...
...proposals could be interpreted in this way. But, he added, all three realize that "indirect aggression might be just as dangerous as direct aggression and all three desire to find a satisfactory method of providing against it." Britain and France would consequently send military missions to Russia to begin staff talks. Clear-cut as these disclosures were, they would have been far more impressive had correspondents not counted so many unhatched eggs in the four-and-a-half months before they were made...