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1 WISH THAT every reader of this column might have listened the other evening in Washington as Dr.

3. 'R. Oppenheimer, who directed the construetion of “ the atomic bomb in the Los Alamos laboratory told

some 15 of us his views on the world situation ‘as the result of the bomb. £ cpp MER. unfortunately

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By David Dietz

destroy the wotld might Have listened to Dr. Oppen-

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“Itrial job. Gen. Dwight D.

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By FRANK ASHTON Scripps-Howsard Stall Writer

VV ASHINGTON, Nov. 22—|' "George Catlett Marshall is winding up the army career for which he spurned at least a $20,000-a-year indus-

Eisenhower is succeeding him as chief of staff. The starting wage of $20,000 was offered after Col. Marshall in September, 1918, directed the massive, complex transfer of American forces from St. Mihiel to the Meuse-Ar-

he would pay the colonel $20,000 & year to start. Marshall responded: “I am a soldier. I'll stick to the service.” The general, who now is retiring from service, doesn’t tell that story. {But he tells others. He's called one of the best story-tellers in the service

For all his reserved manner and stern jaw, he likes to dance. -His partners say he's pretty good, this |six-Toot, great-grafid-nephew of Chief Justice Marshall,

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER , 106 _ |HE ORGANIZED . . . THEN TRUSTED HIS GENERALS—

| Like Lee, He Inspired

Devotion

he felt he belonged after office hours.

wi SOMETIMES he'd slip

‘| post movies, unaccompanied, and quietly leave before the house lights went on. Most times he would read or putter around the house.

Occasionally he'd go to

at Leesburg, Va, and work in the

or field. : “And he really worked

might impair his military etfectiveness were avoided. Writers hoping to do books on him would seek interviews. No. RE oups would try to lio 0.

Governments would indicate they would like some ceremonies to dec | orate him. No. Unless it promoted the war ef. fort—No, yy Soviets put one over on him state department, depositing a medal on a desk and announcing: “That's for Gen. Marshall”

sending a delegation

Winter in Italy .

REPORT ON THE WAR ... .By Gen. George C. Marshall

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (U, B.),

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} : ¥ . » most crowded. The street railways men are worl # » = CHEIF their contracts.” hard and fast to get their schedules adjusted to the] AS A youngster entering ~Vir- a ou vy the organising.) . "on new school hours. ginia Military Institute in 1897, he hour of the North Apis. AL the| THE HOUSE moved closer fo. : was described as “a clumsy, un- ihe was ot African Invasion| geting upon the bill when the promising recruit, ill-looked" upon : A hing, Jeading in bed. rules committee approved it yes- : by the exacting faculty.” : : in Washington rope mend terday by a vote of six-to-two. By Robert C. Ruark Gen. George C. aa, Then Bo tt over oy ap TI Si vouldaht 1. Permit an ‘employer to sue a to CHE AR striding along the corridors lage 0_bave o look, a - a labor union for damages if its | sun fo stroke you and cold beans to no liquor 1.04 been named an all-Southern |itary Institute, died in 1027. In ing “kind of gawky and slow, but requently dropped th] " nd and. 400 many palm trees and boredom and theisooinall tackle. : 1030 he married Katherine Boyce {with a strange speed that inade |O0 8 combat one for an inspection| frente | ed NO Strike” oon ugliest bunch of humans on earth. In one game he popped a joint| Tupper Brown of Baltimore who you realize he was streamlined.” or sometimes for decisions in 2. Repeal the Smith-Connally Yo-- Mr, Maugham -and his-beautiful brown maidens! |y, the back of his neck, a matter {had three children by a ‘previous = 2 sategy... . . ...... ... - anti-strike J The best looking gook. I ever saw in the Pacific|sn + still causes him some discom- | mariage. READY for him on his desk were, He traveled light and fast, always! 3 worbid a union to ‘would ‘have to go to Elizabeth Arden to get pretty iso, September, 1930, he became a | t¥Pewritien reports which informed eager to get back to his desk. | money. to- further-the ca ape - enough to haunt & house. Mr. Maugham's maidens |,,, general when he took over as chief | Nim of army details BPOUR URL to riccinnygy gpg tt of any : oto Toda ‘have tropical yaws, & taboo against touch=| of staff. He was the sixth man in world. NOW AND THEN he appeared at Slang rma sendigute the body with water, black snaggle teeth and a "| that office who was not a graduate _After an hour scanning these, the war-effort civillan affairs to speak The bill 1s . te a hogshead of Wisco, And abvhody officer who|0f West Point. He was jumped Sees would call Members of Hi in he any, lm. voit: Thome trips Howard: W: otsored 3 Jas. a one convinced that periodica general major generals 14 - erences. lunch Split- ' : Yk and use ain't attar of roses. By thumps the ar 2 an 14 rig usually went home. : : Washington let him alone, but ad- Leslie C. Arends R. 1). Xa “climate . . . brother! Either the sun I8{ «© Tondsetul: ed, . Attersoons ware for & minimum mires in oiher cites were 100 nu-| RAMSPECK “id he did no can't out in it or it is raining horl-| APTER studying in army schools WHEN President Roosevelt pro- |num callers or inescapable merous for efficiency. w know | ould oba EE you, Lt. Marshall ‘was sent to the Phil. |claimed & state of limited emer- | functions. Orders were: “Keep peo- |g oy eidings dod whee bl “wu 1 wel Ta nrc libel, as far as the people who have been ; ple away from him. Give him time| York, for instance, he would bel tainly be against: that concerned, goes friple for India, China, to think.” whisked to the hotel basement and provision.” and places that have Arabs in them period, one of his|Up a private elevator. ala ot S Italy Gets Cold steff sald: “We instinctively] The general is friendly and en-| 0% i unny fwaly Geis Lo wanted to serve him. He was like Joys people, but during the war he| C= | keeping I IMAGINE the average G. I. will se Gen. Lee in inspiring devotion and [never had time. until interest in what's left of Europe loyalty. He was a precisionist and ss 5 0» conference Is ov .of most of us Europe is a | he could be stern. But it was an| AT THE END of the war, the gen-| Rep. Andrew J. Bi mud and cold and expensiv honor to be one of His aids.” eral wrote: Wis), who made a food and dead people and " ¢ “The implications of atomic ex«| against the measure you as & walking dollar sign. THE CHIEF liked to think out|plosion will spur men of judgment rules comm! 10 see a picture of sunny Italy: loud. He might start on-an w«id|{to seek s method whereby mean the how cold it can get there, and how tired ‘who happened to be In the officejof the earth can liveyin gaining a he. 9 at the moment: “It looks to me as| justice, romper tain, you got a caramelle? \ i | “Our diplomacy must be oS rettie for papa?” ; The ald wash't expected fo re-|strong. We must make VE 1 used to think travel was the most desirable sta spond. He listened. He was athe potential gangsters Aral rg in which a man could live sounding board. that, if they dare ar Jrge. off a couple of hundred thousand The. general would talk himself |they will do so at their great peril, saat -§¥ at 14 or 15 countries. out, reach a decision and put it Into] “The importance of scientific re-| Of Soldiers Sha There'll be a lot travel in sftest. Then the 4id would 49 95 surth 1s the Jest chvigus ws He i, ai hia world, but it won't be me. I get saddlesore about own business. vilian, importance of .a Fai . -K Mes af 3 buy 10. : : by 1:45 m He ng time. ibe. heh Slt. Dedcstien mary training fk ir fo Wives? : 45 a, m. 's - 8-2 we His first wife, whom ne married | Pentagonians would watch him!liked to have dinner. That's where| greater in my opinion.” p MILLETT

explosion of the one on the New Mexico desert, } % ; suid that he wished more people might see an atomic |"J HERE were now 11 allied : —— po— assumed command of. the British explode. LORE ivisions- in the Italian] | ~ This is : vol arial | [0 army. Gen. Clark continued in world if we used fine® at the Germans had at +> This is the. tenth of 42 installments ‘of. material command of the Sth army. for. such 7% bn Sead lh selected from General Marshall's report on the wins | a... that more people in thes world least 24 on the mainland. ning of World War Il. YE ue Sa LAT THIS time Li, Gen. Carl like when an atomic| Although 14 of these. Were in a As rb 1 i is auiled to Gamiqsd ; F northern Italy outside the combat! gmp QPPENSIVE was s series of| On that date the combined chiefs forces vith | Surely ho- Rows ig. nyo zone, the enemy was in & position|sttacks and pauses, the immediate of Nalf delegated a I a aIgpe With eaduuariess ; its own [to build up a considerably greater) objectives being key terrain: fea-| hower responsibility for all opera-| Gen. Doolittle was appointed com- . we shall [defense force than Gen. Eisen- | tures. £5 tions in the Mediterranean other! mander of the 8th air force. Vice the cebiral ‘Tact Ine Bad available for his att gk], 3 ¥38 She Hardest Xing of Semi] On ategic bombing, Lt, Gen. Ira C Baker, Who syuied : : ’ : go Germans mined » " » » { of Mediterranean - : The additional allied ‘air power |yoqds, trafls, natural cross-country| THREE WEEKS later on Dec. 24. allied air forces. Maj. Gen. Nathan | : » 5» Sr ar and the threat of a landing further | routes of advance, and’ even the ne was appointed supreme allied | 7. TWining was given command of on now the mw 3 trys vations would arrive north by Gen. Patton's 7th army| stream beds. v pa the invasion - strategic aif force and answer a chaplain’s com« and not the | were counted on to deter the enemy To, reinforce terrain harriers the | "400" © : Sores Maj. Gen, J, K. Cannon continued “plaint about the prostitution : from moving his divisions south enemy strongpoints in west, meaning from hey, command of the 13th tactical air| Situstion “in Japan, iu which the | were from the-Po valley. + | which he skillfully employed mine| British Isles. He was ordered 1o0| force, . chaplain says he saw s line of wh sn» "| elds, wire entanglements, log-and- | England to take over the final prep-|, : almost THIS THREAT was exploited by| earth emplacements, and automatic arations. s ‘use of Glen. Patton and his|weaposs. = | Gen. Montgomery, Alr “Chie {corps : OF ame g : Marshal Tedder, and Gen. Bradley|the the Sicilian campaign| MACHINE GUN and mortar em- | joined him there. TE view the 7th army headquarters, which | placements, many of them dug four Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson Wes rawn to prepare for the! and however shocked we may Johiger had any divisions assigned | or five feet into solid rock, covered was named supreme commander of (Anzio landings. have heen by them, we have had to it, was moved to Corsica. Gen.|eveély approach. . allied forces in the Mediterranean| The Sth army then launched its! to accept them as part of the mysterious movements! To deal with them the artillery area, to succeed Gen. Eisenhower. attack against the line of the Ga-| total picture of war, the Mediterranean ares|was heavily reinforced by batteries Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, U. 8. righiano river. Waiting wives have had to acGermans guessing where|of the heaviest field pieces we had army, was appointed his deputy. To disrupt communications in the| cept such reported conditions, army, which they had| produced. | 14 Gen. Sir Oliver W. H. Leese fia of Clerman forces In the Cas- too. : learned to fear so much in Siclly,l The 240-mm howitzer and the 8- ~— : ~~ |8iN0 ares, the 6th corps landed on| .~ And some of the waiting wives’ might strike next. inch gun were rushed from the ¢ beaches near Anzio, 25 miles south| have figured that what men can a» United States, ; *» HANNAH ¢ of Rome, on Jan. 23. get by with ih wartime women in November the 3d corps,| In December the Sth army arrived The landing forces included the 3d | can, too. ‘commanded by Maj. Gen. | before the entrance to the Cassino X U. 8. division, a British infantry di- But there has been no leniency ' Keyes, moved to the|corfidor to Rome. 09 vision, and American Ranger and| in anyone's judgment for erring of trom Sicily. The 2d Moyocean intantey di. JS, parachute Halts ca war wives. plans to hold the line of | vision arrived in Italy at this ’ REACTING swiftly to And the man who comes home Valturmo were (rusirated when and was assigned to i. The United usa to ils ser, the nein rushed bott| 10 find that his wife has been EE, Co ED emer ons ares. he may have been guistiiyl , P. Luces, Sth visions including supporting troops. The Hermann Goering panger j-| Dimsell—thinks it Fight forced crossings of that river. . [OCCAN div wis vision was hastily shifted to ‘the and his duty to cast her off. ying every bridge and cul-|- THE MOROCCAN division beachhead ares and other divisions| oyun 1" vie we took 's more ‘route, the Germans with- were sent down from northern Italy. of Er aathond Tie the “winter line” which By the end of January, the aliied| Ndulb view of, preparing feverishly troops in the beachhead faced a i is ‘true that the husband who : perimeter of strong German forces. Ba With observation from the sur}. : t ‘nob’ rounding hills the Germans were Sous mish: X able to deliver persistent accurate Ng ane artillery fire throughout the fat. HOS |beachhesd and against ships near| SW Wif6 who was v ful it her m _ normal chance the children e the r