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(1940s) Gen. George Marshall
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1940s Highlights
PEOPLE
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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General George Marshall
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<p>(January 3, 1944)
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<p> 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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<p> 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.</p>
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