European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes september 1950 Soldier and heeds nations Call 3d time Eschief of staff became postwar policy Leader by Bernard Liebes staff correspondent George Catlett sol Dier by profession and Diplo mat by has again heeded his country when president Truman turned to the live Star Gen eral to replace Louis Johnson Secretary of it marked the third time the former chief of staff shelved his own personal desire for retirement to serve his marshalls appointment Only awaits repeal of a congressional Law which forbids the appoint ment As defense Secretary of any Man who within 10 years has been Active duty As a commissioned officer of the armed judging by the favourable response of most congressmen that greeted the presidential selection the Legal Barrier will be in Marshall had wanted to Settle Down on his farm at he bad retired As army chief staff after finishing the biggest military Job in but there vat work to on president Truman him if be would go to China the chief personal went to China Yea Marshall he went to China and for More than a year toiled unceasingly to that bloody civil there were times when it looked m if he were but in the the Enigma of China still remained his chinese Mission Marshall again turned to his but even before he had left China on Way mar appointment As Secretary of state was James Byrnes had retired for health president Truman needed a Man of proven stature to re place Marshall was the he left the state department two years in january to recuperate from an operation i which a kidney was during his tenure As Secretary of Marshall saw the expanding communist surge across Europe and realized that peace and the recovery of Europe did not suit Kremlin to Cope with the mar shall came up with his an economic program designed to help Europe fight communism by giving her a healthy Economy on which the sores of communism would not Europe hails plan the unselfish Aims of the mar plan have been hailed by All the Western just the free world hailed the launching of the Marshall has the press of the free world lauded president Truman action in recalling Marshall for the de sense la the space of 10 years mar shall Bas dramatically proven to the world that he is a top Soldier and a top since when president Roosevelt promoted Marshall Over so higher ranking army officers to make him chief of mar Ahall has been general of the confidant and adviser of two presidential ambassador and Secretary of president Roosevelt saw in mar Ball the Man Best fitted to build a Small army of men into modernized Force equal to any Marshall has been called Tine greatest american military Genius since Stonewall when the entered world War Marshall served on the combined chiefs of he Early saw the need for a unified Allied one of the Para mount factors in the allies Vic George Marshall tory Over foes on two of the even As a Young mar Shalls capacity As a Soldier was in Marshall As a lieutenant in the not Many years removed from Vir finia military was serv ing his second tour of duty in the his commanding general called upon him to draw up a Field order covering the entire disposition of troops and supplies in a tactical defense the Young lieutenant directed a running of questions at the assembled bulletin outlines military strategy military strategy is simply doing the things we have to do to keep an enemy from defeat ing us and when were Strong enough and Hes weak getting him and Knock tag him according to an the armed forces As a combat carried in the Kacom bulletin dated the bulletin listed the five major tasks in a War As to keep from losing to assist our allies to As ourselves of raw materials to reduce the end mys War making and to meet and defeat the enemy major we Arent going to try to prove that the armed forces have to act is a team to be successful in com the bulletin article were simply going to list important tasks which have to be Point out the Means of performing them Are divided among the and discuss in some detail How each of the tasks is carried the necessity of team play in com Bat will make itself evident at the fact that an aggressor can without warning Means that the is always at a disadvantage at the outset of a the bulletin pointed if another War should this Early enemy u Likely to be very threatening our ability to strike we must react quickly enough to prevent the from doing such heavy damage to us that we cannot re cover in time to prevent him from winning the War right at the be the reaction to an enemy attack must be both offensive and de the bulletin the enemy attack must be reduced to a scale with which we can Cope and we must launch the most powerful retaliatory blows of which we Are the greatest threat to the from the enemy is through air the bulletin Story it listed attacks through sabotage and subversive activity and seaborne attacks against coastal As two other one of the first Steps toward checking the enemy initial of i years 1945 Gen Douglas Macarthur orders a property assets and records of the japanese government in sept 1946 the opa Grants an average 6 per cent increase in the retail Price of Ford 1947 with machine gun hand grenade explosions and the Roar of riot squads racing through its Trieste officially becomes a free 1948 Secretary of state George Marshall urges the american people to avoid letting the Pas Sions of the moment dim their Faith in the United 1949 some troops return to their Home stations after completion of Euc oms exercise pensive would be the use of our air Long Range bombing air Force heavy bomb ers and naval Carrie based planes would take part in this aimed at destroying the War production and checking his military by far the greatest part of our undertaking to Shore up our allies would be that of furnishing weapons and supplies to the bulletin enemy forces might then be held in Check until full strength could the Best Way to avoid having to flight for a Lodgment area an area which gives direct land Access to the enemy main forces is never to lose the bulletin if new toehold must be the bulletin the nor Mandy Type invasion might be too causing us to turn to airborne has rivals in Cabinet artists i Ondon Chur chill has discovered he int the Only member of commons who according to the Manches Ter at least two Stafford Cripps and Maurice spar time and s number of Back benches on both sides of the House Daub away for now there thinking of forming a parliamentary artists and having an Public May enjoy trying to distinguish a Cripps from a a Webb from a lord the guardian regimental officers and issued or Ders so accurate not one revision had to be though his military handling of the situation was above re the fact that Mere exert such in fluence upon his Superior officers and come out of it with nothing but admiration and respect was a Harbinger of Bis ability to handle in june Marshall went to his greatest achievement in world War i was the move ment of men and their in absolute secrecy from Mihiel in 11 Days to achieve tactical Surprise in the Meuse Argonne for that the then maj Marshall was picked by Gen John Pershing As an officer who had a Brilliant future ahead of him in the although his ambition was to command marshalls organizational capacity kept him for the most part at a culminate t close watch kept on Tibet passes Kashmir a close watch is being kept on passes connecting Tibet with Kash Mir to keep out potential trouble makers and to prevent arms under an order in trav Elers from Tibet or Sinkiang must leave their arms at the until their return narrow Mountain trails which Cross passes and dangerous glaciers Are used mostly by traders from asias showed brilliance in Early stages of career ing m his appointment As army chief of the position he occupied until he stepped Down in 1945 at the end of would War marshalls acceptance of the de lense Post will make him not Only civilian chief of the but also head of the Navy and the air Force As he will bring to the Post both a civilian and military As Secretary of Marshall will have occasion to Deal directly with Congress in explaining the needs and Aims of the defense for that position he in admirably his relations with both As chief of staff and Secretary of have always been his knowledge of the subjects on which he was questioned and his remarkable memory have left a deep impression on congressional in the past 18 As presi Dent of the american red Marshall has travelled the meeting leaders in labor and such experience will be invaluable to him in his new those who Are close to Marshall report he has lived an outdoor Riding horseback and and that he is again Rudd faced and equal to the task he will now Span of life rises in new York wage earners and their families gained a Hal year of life expectancy in the metropolitan life insurance has the company said a Survey among millions of Industrial policy holders showed that expectancy in that group Rose to a new High of the figure was five years Over the 1939 metropolitan and average length of life now is about double that of the period from 1879 to the 1949 gain was slightly greater for the announce ment adding that they have consistently done better than males in adding to length of in said the re girls at age for now have an advantage of years in expectation of life Over White males of the same no figures were Given for Iran air crash kills 3 Teheran iranian airways including a South african capt Buckley were killed when their plane crashed shortly after ing off from Mehraban Airport for the stars and stripes vol s 151 editor chief managing Ednor sports editor september 1959 it col Henry j Richter Zumwalt Taylor Ken Phil executive manager chief of distribution Maurice r Kors Wood Louis h Brown news bureaus ext Darmstadt 190 b Haven 2104421363 Munich 48661 the european edition is published daily at Darmstadt for the u 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