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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Malin Craig became Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army in 1935, he found a military mutual aid society thriving in Washington. Ranking generals excused themselves or were excused from physical examinations. Old colonels were promoted to brigadier general, old brigadiers to major general, on the theory that a long life in arms deserved a good ending with maximum retirement pay. The result, in Malin Craig's opinion, was that the list of generals on active duty included too many inactive crocks...
...President promoted Brigadier General Henry H. Arnold.* 52, to be major general and chief of air corps; Brigadier General William H. Wilson, 60. Coast Artillery, to succeed retiring Major General Fox Conner as commander of the First Army; Brigadier General Robert McCandlass Beck Jr., 59, an assistant chief of staff, to succeed retiring Major General Frank McCoy. Also upped were seven colonels to brigadiers. Average...
With outraged vehemence, Secretary of War Harry Woodring retorted that Major Generall Moseley "was disappointed in his ambition to become Chief of Staff. . . . As to the reasons why General [Malin] Craig was preferred for the important post, I do not think anyone needs to look farther than to read General Moseley's flagrantly disloyal statement...
Perhaps never before have statesmen of great powers negotiated so expeditiously. As fast as the Big Four agreed upon a basic point, their secretaries took this to an adjoining room, where it was dealt with by general staff officers and legal experts, ironing out all details...
...Poland, powerfully armed, last week had 500,000 of her 1,500,000 soldiers lined up to invade Czechoslovakia. The threat of Joseph Stalin fortnight ago that the Red Army would march if Poland committed "unprovoked aggression" on Czechoslovakia was no longer taken seriously by the Warsaw General Staff. Polish officers squawked, "We have called the Communist bluff!" Hungary was and acted weak. Drastically disarmed after the World War as one of the defeated nations, her present rearmament is incomplete and the Czechoslovak Army probably today could whip the Hungarian Army if the two could meet alone in battle. Events...