SUPREME COMMAND
ALLIES’ SECOND FRONT GEN. MARSHALL TIPPED (9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 30. General George Marshall, Chief of the United States Army Staff, is mentioned in dispatches from both Washington and abroad as the probable choice as supreme commander of the United Nations’ second-front forces, says the New York Times. The Berlin radio announced that Mr. Winston Churchill, President Roosevelt and M. Stalin had agreed
to appoint General Marshall as com-mander-in-chief of the invasion forces.
The New York Times’ correspondent at Washington says that President Roosevelt held an important conference at the White House attended by Admiral W. D. Leahy, General Marshall, Admiral E. J. King, Lieutenant - General Arnold, Mr. Donald Nelson, and Mr. tjarry Hopkins. Although none would comment, it is believed that they discussed tying production more closely to strategy for victory.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20876, 31 August 1942, Page 3
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134SUPREME COMMAND Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20876, 31 August 1942, Page 3
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