Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week one of the most influential voices in Britain spoke out against trying to build a Maginot Line of the air. Arthur William, Lord Tedder, Britain's top air strategist in World War II, deputy commander of SHAEF under Eisenhower and now vice chairman of the BBC, said that any reliance on passive defense (meaning a huge complex of radar screens, interceptor planes and antiaircraft weapons) would not "provide a deterrent to aggression [but would] bankrupt the free world and hand it over to Communism and chaos without a blow...
Died. Leo Pasvolsky, 59, Russian-born architect of the United Nations charter and economics expert at Brookings Institution; after a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A late '30s protege of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Economist Pasvolsky served as Hull's principal behind-the-scenes strategist at the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco conferences, broke a Big Five deadlock at San Francisco by "reinterpreting" the veto question and rewriting the U.N. charter...
...services, Eisenhower (for unification) and Radford (against) were bitter foes, but Eisenhower has since come to admire and trust Radford's clear thinking and professional ability. A strong second contender for chairman: General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, 61, the Air Force's first chief of staff, a shrewd strategist, who would have to come out of retirement to take...
...does not need to be a strategist or a scientist to see the flaw in the air generals' argument. We might rely exclusively on the Strategic Air Command if we had a fair chance of striking the first blow. But it is assumed by the Joint-Chiefs of Staff themselves that the first blow, if struck at all, will be struck by the enemy. If we have no air defense, we thus concede to the enemy the opportunity to devastate our cities and our industry, and perhaps to cripple the Strategic Air Command itself by destroying its bases...
...Different League. On his third try, Strategist Brownell had won a national campaign. Few would question the fact that as a national political planner and organizer he is the top man in his party...