Show 0 M 6 U W washington D C FOUR STARS FOR CLARK th the name of the seventh full general of the war will soon be sent to th the e senate for confirmation gen mark dark clark commander ol of allied for cesin italy clark has been considered the hardluck hard luck general through no fault of his own the public realize it but clark has trained division after division in italy only y to have them transferred to other more pressing war theaters many of his former troops bore the brunt of the landing in normandy he also trained most af of pf the men who landed along the french coast near cannes and marseilles it is no longer a military secret that dark clark and his U S troops are now bearing the brunt of the italian war the british have largely pulled out of italy for the balkans clark has a few roles poles brazilians Brazi lians and some indian troops but the main fighting Is being done by americans the toil full generals now on active duty in the U S army are generals marsh II 11 eisenhower Elsen hower stilwell arnold and malin craig the latter having been retired after serving as chief of staff was recalled to active duty in the war department where he heads a personnel board in addition two other full generals are on the retired list john J fershing and peyton C march the latter chief of staff in the list last war both incidentally Inel dental bitter personal enemies with dark clark this will make a total of seven full generals on active duty plus two retired full generals it is interesting to note that prior to 1930 there had been only six other full generals in all the history of the united states george washington for instance never became a full general even though congress made it possible tor for him to do so other full generals have been ulysses S grant william T sherman philip H sheridan all of the civil war armies p plus lus world war leaders tasker H bliss charles P summerall and john L hines NOTE considerable debate has been going on in top mill tary circles over what assignment gen vinegar joe stil well should get when he finishes his california vacation it was planned to put stilwell ini in command of a specially trained army to land on the china coast however some propose keeping him inthe in ln the war department to replace gen ben lear as commander of ground forces STALIN AND AD D DC it can now be revealed that one of the fore foremost moist questions on the agenda of the stalin de conferences feren ces in moscow was the vital problem of what to do with germany after the war both stalin and de are for a hard pence peace want to see germanys germanas Germ anys war making powers destroyed completely one significant proposal taken to moscow by de calls for the use of german industry after the war for the rehabilitation of all wrecked french and russian factories railroads shipping also he proposes using german mines to replenish soviet and french istocka stocka s block of raw materials depleted deplete by war on this stalin was in complete agreement NOTE stalin strengthened russian influence in france by his invitation to de french diplomats believe there is now less chance of britain forming a western bloc in n E europe U composed of britain france belgium holland norway and denmark a bloc which the kremlin looks upon with suspicion GO co C 1 when announcement inno was made in tile the senate that president roosevelt had nominated world renowned poet and librarian of congress bald macleish MacL elsh to be assistant secretary of state one wit cracked from now on all treaties negotiated by the state department will be written in iambic pentameter L winter difficulties in shipping s supplies up to russia through the arctic sea combined with the establishment of allied cc control atrol of the entire mediterranean area ore are resulting in allied pressure upon turkey to open the dardanelles Darda nelles this would permit shipment of supplies to rus sias black sea ports and mean the saving of thousands of miles of water and overland travel from the persian gulf up through iran and southern russia fl L when larry fly resigned from the FCC and moved to new york he took up residence at the lombardy apartments A neighbor in the building Is wall street lawyer eugene L gorey garey who mastermind master mind ed the smear fly campaign of congressman gres sinan coxs house committee which investigated the FCC not long ago fl at the court 0 st james U S ambassadors usually bow to british custom and weir wear knee breeches though ambassador charley dawes rebelled and wore ordinary ardinary long pants |