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- General George Marshall
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- (January 3, 1944)
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- The American people do not, as a general rule, like or trust
- the military. But they like and trust George Marshall. This is
- no more paradoxical than the fact that general Marshall hates
- war. The secret is that American democracy is the stuff Marshall
- is made of.
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- Hired by the U.S. people to do a job, he will be as good, as
- ruthless, as tough, as this job requires. There his ambitions
- stop. "He has only one interest," said one of his intimates, "to
- win this damned war as quick as he can, with the fewest lives
- lost and money expended, and get the hell down to Leesburg, Va.,
- and enjoy life." He shuns all avoidable publicity, he is a man
- of great personal reserve, but the U.S. people have learned why
- they trust General Marshall more than they have trusted any
- military man since George Washington: he is a civis Americanus.
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