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Article: Thankless treks through the minefields of peace
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- May 31, 1987
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George C. MarshallStatesman. By Forrest C. Pogue. Viking Press.
$29.95.
This hefty fourth volume of Forrest C. Pogue's splendid
biography winds up Gen. George C. Marshall's career in often
thankless duties that would have soured less resolute souls. Mrs.
Marshall was upset when, after six man-killing years as Army chief of
staff, and the war won in both Europe and Japan, the general, at 65,
was sent (with her) to China on the thorniest of missions. He was
asked to win a meeting of the minds of two angry military groups
whose minds would not meet - Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists and Mao
Tse-tung's Communists.
Once hot-tempered, Marshall had tamed his choler and become a
model of patient ...