The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28

and he no sooner gets thOrugh with that than he gets into an- other plane and flys away to Omaha to speak ct the Legion convention"
 one answer to Mrs. Marshalls bewilderment Is to be found in herself. When Gen. Marshall gets home at night she protects him from interruption so he can relax and get 6 good nights rest.
 One night, some time ago, a call came from the War Department after Gen. Marshall had gone to sleep. Mrs. Marshall answered the phone and tried to take the message. But the voice ct the other end was inSistent.
 Mrs. Marshall tried again. "The General is asleep, and I'd rather not disturb him. Is it any thing impOrtant?"
 "Oh," said the voice, with . touch of sarcasm. "it's just that the War Department Is on fire!"
 Marshall's job as the Army's No. soldier begins at 6:30 a. m. Often, he and Mrs. Marshall take breakfast on the sunporch (mealS in this house are served anywhere except in the dining room). Mar shall scans two newspapers with his coffee, then makes the six minute drive down the hill to the Potomac.
 It is now only 7:so. or 7:46. In his ofnce, the first task is to study the "Log" = c loose-leaf book with the word Secret" stamped on the cover. This gives him brief digest of every important tactical message received by the War Department since he left his desk the night before.
 He clears away other papers his desk is always uncluttered- and goes into his first conference. Every day the first man he sees is General Thomas Handy, Chief of Operations. If they need to talk with Admiral King in the Navy building, there Is @ direct telephone line, with privacy equipment. Marshall is likely to see Handy two or three times 6 day. The only other man she sees as frequently Is Gen. H. Fl. (Hap) Arnold, Chief of the Air Force.
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 If a conference runs into the lunch hour, he takes the con- ferees home with him. Mrs. Mar shall gets a telephone call just as they are leaving, and knows that in six minutes, the General and guests will walk in the door, and she must be ready for them, for he wants to sit down to the meal without preliminaries.
 They talk as they drive to Fort
 Myer, and they talk through lunch. But when lunch is over, Mrs. Marshall takes over the talk ing. The guests may be Ameri- can, British, Chinese or Dutch. Whatever they are, she entertains them for exactly fifteen minutes. while the General steals off to the .sunpOrch on the second floor.
 Maybe the discussion has dealt with staggering news from a bat- tie front. Maybe an error of strategy has been revealed. But when Marshall stretches out on. the chaise tongue in the corner of the sunporch. the heavy weight of war passes from his mind, and he sleeps. For fifteen minutes he sleeps. It is his salvation.
 Tn the afternoon there is a staff conference - either the Joint Chiefs or the Combined Chiefs. ~Jolnt Chiefs means the American Chiefs of. Staff- General Marshall and Admiral King. The "CoEnnlned Chiefs are the Chiefs of Staff Of the United Nations.
 But in the evening, Marshall Is one Of those rare executives who know how to leave his troubles at the office. When hs comes home, he gives himself completely t0 the business of riding horDe- back going to the movies, OI reading a detective story.
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