HIGH COMMAND: Toward Unity

The United Nations at last had a High Command. It was not in London, where most U.S. citizens would have guessed it would be. It was in a cool white building put up for the United States Public Health Service in Washington, across Constitution Avenue from the Munitions and Navy Buildings. By this week the headquarters of the "Combined Chiefs of Staff had become the greatest complex of military secrets in the Allied world.

Dream. This united High Command fulfills a dream of General George Catlett Marshall, the U.S. Army's Chief of Staff....

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