All-Star Staff

ARMY & NAVY

At each season's end sports writers rate athletes by selecting allstar teams. The current issue of the U. S. Infantry Journal, in an article by George L. Simpson, lieutenant colonel of Field Artillery, presents an extraordinary slant on world military history by picking an allstar, alltime, all-nation army corps command. Selections :

Commanding General: Frederick the Great.

Chief of Staff: Alfred, Count von Schlieffen, who planned Germany's World War strategy.

G-1 (Chief of Personnel): Graf von Moltke, German Commander in 1870.

G-2 (Intelligence): Robert E. Lee.

G-3 (Operations): Pierre de Bourcet, artillery commander of Louis XV.

G-4 (Supplies): William Tecumseh Sherman, who marched through Georgia living on the country.

Adjutant General: Julius Caesar.

Judge Advocate: Marquis de Caulain-court, Napoleon's confidential aide.

Finance Officer: Alcibiades, shrewd manager of Athens' wars.

Chemical Officer: Karl von Clausewitz, tactician who made Germany's army a great war machine.

Chaplain: Mohammed.

Chief of Artillery: Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson.

Air Officer: Baron von Richthofen, Germany's No. 1 War ace.

Engineer: Erich von Ludendorff, Germany's World War Chief of Staff.

Signal Officer: Scipio Africanus, who without benefit of radio or cable won victories overseas for Rome.

Provost Marshal: Winfield Scott, U. S. commander in the Mexican War.

Quartermaster: James Guthrie Harbord, A. E. F. chief of staff.

Below all these Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington and Hannibal rated only as division commanders. Said Lieut.-Colonel Simpson: "To those who disagree, I can only say: Trot out your corps, and name your ground. . . ."

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