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JANUARY 3, 1944 Y7' TION .37
of Hawaii prior to establishing residence
in Nevada.
Against Cromwell's possible charge of
fraud, Mrs. Cromwell had a reply ready:
She went to Reno primarily to escape
New Jersey's heavy income and property
taxes and only incidentally to get a di-
vorce.
Guilty as Charged
"Time," said the pale man with the
snowy hair and dark eyebrows, "straight-
ens out everything." And with that Paul
De Lucia, prominent survivor of the Al
Capone gang, advised Willie Bioff to
"abscond." He invited Bioff to visit his
coffee plantation in Mexico, there to let
time bring forgetfulness to the people
who were accusing him of crime.
But Willie didn't abscond, and so be-
gan the long series of circumstances that
another climax last week.
- f~+ those events inWASHINGTON TIDES
Marshall and King
by ERNEST K. LINDLEY
In his Christmas Eve broadcast, Chief of Staff, he argued that Marshall
the President publicly affirmed his was too valuable as Chief of Staff and
"great faith and confidence" in General as a global strategist to be spared for
Marshall and Admiral King as the di- a field command.
rectors of our armed forces throughout By coupling King with Marshall in
the world and as the leading American his public tribute, the President in-
strategists of the war. ferentially quashed the rumors that
Marshall, more than King, has al- King is on his way out. King is a con-
ready won contemporary recognition. troversial figure. He is neither a diplo-
In NEwSwEEK'S survey of 70 informed mat nor a politician, while Marshall is
independent observers on American both in the best senses of both words.
leadership since Pearl Harbor, Mar- His "be damned" attitude toward the
shall came first, receiving one more public, although it has gradually worn
citation than the President himself, away, has not been helpful to the
while King stood tenth (NEwSwEEK, Navy. Many of his subordinates fear
Dec. 6). Curiously, Marshall's im- him and regard him as a martinet.
mense prestige was largely responsible Yet, King is a man of exceptional in-
for the change in plans by which Eisen- telligence and strength. (Incidentally,
bower, instead of he, was named su- when off duty he puts on no airs and
preme Allied commander on the west- talks with charming simplicity.) His
ern front. grasp of global strategy is probably as
The first proposals that Marshall be comprehensive as Marshall's. And, on
given this command were inspired the record, the Navy's achievements
partly by his admirers who felt that he during the last two years since King
should have a chance to "make his took it in hand are even more remark-
reputation." They recalled that while able than the Army's apart from the
few people remember the name of the Army Air Forces. The Army Ground
United States Chiefs of Staff during Forces have been tested in action only
the last war, almost everybody re- on a small scale. The Navy has to its
members Pershing. They thought it credit: the defeat of the U-boats, in
only fitting that the man who had built cooperation with the British and Can-
the new American Army, and who had adians, which is the greatest Allied
consistently held that a great invasion strategic victory of the war; its own
of the Continent from the west was amazingly successful submarine cam-
feasible and probably essential to vic- paign against Japanese shipping; the
tory over Germany, should have the Battle of Midway, which ranks with
honor of commanding this, the most Stalingrad and Alamein in importance,
complex and possibly most hazardous and its proven superiority to the Japs
military operation in history. in every type of vessel and equipment
But now it has been discovered Mar- and in every kind of engagement in the
shall's reputation already has been air, on the water, and on the beaches.
made. More than that, it is widely dis- King may be elevated. When Mar-
cerned that Marshall's responsibilities shall was earmarked for command of
as Chief of Staff and member of the the Allied forces fighting Germany, the
Joint (American) and Combined plan was to make King Admiral of the
(British-American) Chiefs of Staff are Fleet and gradually relieve him of his
of a higher order than those of any routine duties, at least of those as Chief
field commander. In addition, his in- of Naval Operations, so that he could
fluence on Congress is matchless. concentrate on strategy-making. A pro-
The switch in plans was made easier motion of that sort may eventually de-
by the determination that General velop.
Eisenhower had acquired sufficient One other charge against King is
prestige, both in Britain and the United made in some quarters-that. he is anti-
States, to be acceptable as the supreme British. He has had to buck the British
Allied commander in the west. Why tendency to neglect the Pacific until
not a British general? A majority of the Germany has been beaten, .and the
forces for the invasion from the west Navy has turned down various British
must come from the United States. The requests for Lend-Lease aid. Besides,
President insisted-or, perhaps more like Stalin, King is blunt, tough, and
accurately, calmly assumed-that the possibly, by nature, a little suspicious.
enterprise should be commanded by These are qualities which endear him
an American. to the Navy and are additional reasons,
Admiral King had much to do with if any are needed, why if he moves in
the change in plans for Marshall. Aided any direction it will be up, instead of
by Admiral Leahy, the President's out.JNARY 3, 1944
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