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...Anglo-American Relations" will be the topic under discussion at the sixth meeting of the Law School Forum, to be held tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. Participants will be Edwin Johnson, Senator from Colorado, C. Crane Brinton '19, professor of History, and Edward S. Mason, professor of Economics...
...with an Angora Cap. While the Cabinet Mission still talked with India's leaders, a meeting was held in the courtyard of Anglo-Arabic College across Delhi from the Viceroy's palace. Green and white banners flaunted unacademic slogans: "Pakistan or die," "We are determined to fight." The speeches were equally inflammatory. Said Abdul Qaiyum Khan from the North-West Frontier Province: "I hope the Moslem nation will strike swiftly before [a Hindu] government can be set up in this country. . . . The Moslems will have no alternative but to take out their swords." Said Sirdar Shaukat Hyat Khan...
These are some of the "secrets" in Top Secret: earnest, shrill World War II history as interpreted by the editor of Manhattan's earnest, shrill daily tabloid PM. The subject is the Anglo-American invasion of Europe and the Battle of Germany. Editor Ingersoll, as a General Staff Corps officer, had a share in making and carrying out some of the plans involved. Top Secret was written after he was released from the Army (as a lieutenant colonel) in August...
...into World War III, if it comes and if they can. Although World War II was definitely our business, and the U.S. "did a great and truly glorious thing" in helping to fight it to the end, World War III would be "someone else's war" (an Anglo-Russian war he suggests), and none of our business. Only a few pages in Top Secret lack an argumentative tone-notably a graphic chapter of Ingersoll's own D-day experiences on Utah Beach and beyond. The rest is largely impressions of and reactions to British motives and bad manners...
...Anglo-American councils, Ingersoll believes, the British played a particular game. First they tried to "win over each new American officer" by "being charming." If this did not work, they would "manufacture" evidence in order to have the officer removed. When plans for Operation Overlord (the cross-Channel invasion) were drafted in 1943, the British, who had helped to draw them up, tried to stall-for "the British always mix political with military motives." When Operation Overlord was finally forced down their throats, Eisenhower was given the big job, but "of course [he] had nothing whatever to do with leading...