Show U S cevelo develops PS great generals in every war gen marshall heads army As nation watches world conflict by RO ROGER GER SHAW released by western westen newspaper villon union washington every american war or war in which america was interested has turned out a general or two or three in the revo lution there were ge george orga washington and nathaniel greene of first rank strangely enough the general who won that wars primary victory saratoga was not of first rank by any member of means his name still unpopular in army circles was horatio gates gates disliked washington and the Gat gates esl triumph over burgoyne was really won by such subordinates as benedict arnold and dan morgan I 1 the war of 1812 wa was s perhaps the american ardys mos most t dismal episode it turned out traitors pol broons and phonies but it also produced bucolic gen andrew J jackson ackson of the same tough scotch irish stock as dan morgans riflemen jackson won the concluding battle of new orleans alter after his countrymen had met defeat at detroit queenstown Queens town and up and down the long canadian border in the mexican war there were two of them zach taylor and winnie scott scott was old fuss and feathers to the boys in blue taylor ay was a political general tram from the slave south while scott was a regular both men were amiable and efficient especially scott who had learned his tricks as a youngster back in 1812 the exploits of this twain with tiny forces far from home were almost epic in the civil war we have a double setup set up north and south the northern all stars were the usual big three of grant sherman sheridan the latter originally a cavalry chief sherman was the best of the three and the best in the whole war according to the worlds leading military critic B H liddell hart ol of england the southern team was lee jackson forrest stonewall jackson was killed in mid wat war five generals became president in the spanish war there were generals and admirals and what nots bots but a lieutenant colonel named teddy roosevelt ran away with the show he commanded the rough riders ridera at san juan hill and rode himself into the white house in good company the company was as follows washington jackson taylor and grant a general from each war who became president that brings us down to the so called second world war in this war there have been very few generals of note En glands gort and Irons ironside Ids were kicked upstairs after dunkirk frances gamelin a nice fellow me like gort cart is more than in the doghouse generals potato petain and to in this mans war are political generals rather than front fight ers Fin lands Manner helm and greenes Gree ces dead metaxas were dic generals who combined business with pleasure when it came to their particular eular russian and italian phases of armageddon 11 II germa nys air chief liermann hermann goering is a purely political general while keitel Is a desk general who does a job like our own henry stimson manfred von Brauc hitsch is the top german field general but not well g A sv FA a TED RED ewt BLUE aa fill GREEM uti y ellow el LOW I 1 muti 0 PURPLE uti III WJ U 1 iii J ite fe I 1 ri 1 i 1 17 i old I 1 13 t known while guderian Gud erlan eilan is the tank expert exper who tho overran the west wesl when it comes to italian generals are there any and it so BO where badig he the ahe caesar of ethiopia went the way of gort gart and Goi gomella Gomel nelin ln and marshal graziani libyan defender resigned I 1 because of his bis many reverses that thai leaves america at this moment americas washington jack sonorant ton grant of the second world war is george catlett marshall chief of staff and commanding general ile he is a remarkably nice fellow he has light I 1 blue eyes end and did not go to west point in army politics there is a good deal of feeling against the pointers so this is in marsha marchalls Mar f favor a vor instead instead tie lie went to the littie point pointon of the South Southland lan d Virginia military institute at lexington in the shenandoah valley VM V M 1 I also turned put out stonewall jackson akson X 1 GEN fc EORGE MARSHALL the right arm ot of roberte robert E lee staff chief marshall however hails from that hotbed of quakers and generals and quaker generals pennsylvania Ext extremely hard worker marshall has a likeable perso personality nall he is riot not technical in his chras i ing but human and understandable he has never been a publicity hound but he does docs like to talk he likes to expound his ideas and he be has plen plenty of these without a doubt he is az an extremely hard worker and of a restless turn of mind and body since he got the high command he has flown nearly miles about the countryside on trips of inspection he has another aspect one that every great general through history has husbanded hus banded he sticks by his bis old soldiers through thick and thin and they have direct access to him abany at any time calus caius julius was that way and so were wellington and napoleon and so was ladendorff Luden dorff who unfortunately stuck by an ex corporal named A hitler general marshall lives at one of show places fort myer just outside the district of columbia this is the fortress that is attached to the arlington national soldiers cemetery the likeable marshal marshall gets up in the morning at 5 30 which la Is mor more e than the privates private have to do helices He likes to ride lal hit horse lor for an hour or so before breakfast he gets to his bis office in the war department around 7 though the department does not open officially till he reads all his own morning mail close to half a hundred letters per diem most of the long morning he bickers with congressmen reporters aides or white housein he has lunch beil betimes meson on the askin desk in his office a tun luncheon cheon of pie and milk or perhaps a chocolate bar all AD a afternoon he labors and does all that he has to do bicke rings anew confabs conf abs hasty decisions long term plans its its all in good hands he takes homework home work home with him and studies till far into them the night hours brushing up tor for the morrow its not an easy routine marshall is a pershing man in the army lingo he was a pershing aide up to 1824 1924 has pershing ideas and a pershing background IP in the them same way in france d is a foch man while gamelin Garne liri was a loffre man and napoleon a carnot man this in army circles is tor for marshall and also against him pershing has always been something perhaps of a controversial figure marshall however is not there is very little controversy about marshall this Is very fortunate in the year of grace 1941 knows how to compromise marshall is patient likes order dislikes chaos and knows how bow to compromise if or when he has to marshalls marchalls Mar original purpose was a 2 comparatively small highly trained perfectly perfect li equipped force of regulars capable of attempting anything after the tall fall of france last june came conscription and untrained masses ofray of raw material marshall had to change his plans to conform to an emotional public opinion A good many of the regulars hive have not cared tor for this their slogan has been business as usual marshall himself is basically an infantry general nota warped faddist on tanks or air every army unit today is hall half to three quarters composed of mere recruits but marshall cannot help that he has had to accept the draft whether he liked it or not presumably he does but some of his officers presumably do not they put little faith in mere numbers and prefer quality to quantity all this is debatable and remains to bo be seen semen our military future appears to be in good hands though of coursin cour course the anglo french thought th the e same ot of gort and gamelin marshalls marchalls Mar first wound came at V M I 1 L a bayonet wound in a hazing accident levs lets hope he be suffers no more knifing no more wounds from the political hazing of that sometimes strident bedlam the 91 fleshpots flesh pots s of wash washington langto n intrigue |