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...Similarly," he commented, "jet-propulsion will not affect the airplane in its present civil uses. Due to jet-propulsion's excessive use of fuel, it will have only minor supplementary uses for special purposes...
...much longer will they have to fight? How far must they go before the Nazis cry quits? There are many imponderables, such as the weight and power of the expected Russian offensive on the East Prussia-Vistula front, which cannot fail to affect German resistance in the west. Ike Eisenhower said last week that he was optimistic, but added: "I hope to prevent myself from becoming complacent." If anyone had asked Omar Bradley, he would probably have answered with one of the homespun phrases he utters so often: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating...
...Germans hang on? Explained General Alexander: 1) for prestige -Italy, a former Ally, is the major territory outside Germany that is still held; 2) for morale-further retreat would affect the home front; 3) for supply-the industries of north Italy are still useful...
Britain's hardship was organized, disciplined. For themselves, Britons saw no prospect of a violent swing in any direction. But Britons themselves knew that what happened in continental Europe would one day affect Britain. Said the News Chronicle's editor Gerald Barry: This has become the common man's war. Man is trying to find the equation between individual liberty and economic order. Communal control . . . without too great a sacrifice of personal freedom seems to be the common denominator of all resistance movements...
...Germans were delighted. They began to posture as a friend of Poland. Polish slave laborers in Germany were permitted to remove the big P (for Pole) from their coats. Few Poles, familiar with the horrors of German friendship, would be deceived by the tactic. Nor could it greatly affect the military situation in Poland. But responsibility for the fact that at this late day in the war the Germans could still make use of such a tactic lay squarely with Moscow-and, to a lesser extent, with the U.S. and Britain...