Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those historical accidents wherein an author, an idea and a ready public all collide at the right instant, Lieut. Colonel William F. Kernan became a nationally quoted strategist overnight. His Defense Will Not Win the War (Little, Brown; $1.50), a fast, hot, rough-&-tumble book that people could eat up, hit the bookstands when everyone was saying the same thing...
Churchill & Churchill. One of the most frequent criticisms leveled at Winston Churchill during the past weeks was that, as Prime Minister & Defense Minister combined, he had too big a job for one man, that as Defense Minister he had been a bad war strategist. Prime Minister Churchill responded to this criticism last week by remaining Defense Minister also. If he had been a bad strategist, his critics could only place their hopes in his newly appointed advisers. Even the most captious critics could agree with a Sketch editorial which said: "The Prime Minister, if he has not exactly bowed...
Fresh German troops were reported moving last week toward the Russian front, where Adolf Hitler was trying desperately to regain the initiative. The fact that Hitler had lost the initiative in Russia led many a cozy armchair strategist to forget that on most other actual or potential fronts the initiative was Hitler's or Japan...
...main story concentrates on the young woman Tanni and the war's effect on her relationship with the Buddhist Lao Peng and with her lover Poya. Tanni is a girl with an equivocal "past," revealed with a shade more suspense than it deserves. Poya is a parlor strategist of no mean talent who can discourse on erotic esthetics and who, for a while, is all she knows enough to need...
Where Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch was last week neither Eduard Benes nor any other Allied strategist knew for sure, but they pondered reports that many another German general was in disgrace...