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...promise of victory was bright. But the path to victory was highly uncertain. And the greatest single element of that uncertainty was the success or failure of the Anglo-U.S. invasion of western Europe, which Soviet Russia had been demanding since 1942, and which Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt now proclaimed as necessary and imminent...
...chief's office and locked myself up in there with them, removed my pistol and coat. In the bunch I had two rough gang leaders. They had attained leadership with their fists and could have torn me to pieces. One was of Mexican descent. The other was Anglo-American. Both were manly kids but plenty bad-and they hated each other...
...Your great hour has struck. Strong attacking armies are advancing today against the Anglo-Americans. I do not need to say more to you. You all feel it. Everything is at stake. You bear the holy duty to ... achieve the superhuman for our Fatherland and our Führer." After a short spell of bad weather which grounded Allied reconnaissance and attack planes, Rundstedt struck. Crack German armored and infantry divisions drove in behind massive artillery barrages. German paratroops landed behind the U.S. lines, tried to snarl communications. Buzz-bombs, rockets and a new, undescribed V-weapon came over...
They provided 1) that the treaty, like the Anglo-Russian pact, should continue in force for 20 years, and in perpetuity thereafter unless denounced, after a year's warning, by either party; 2) that both countries would cooperate to end German aggression now and in the future; 3) that neither nation will enter into alliances or coalitions disgreeable to the other. The treaty's preamble resolved "to collaborate with a view to creating an international system of security. . . ." Next step: a similar Anglo-French pact...
...groups in Paris, London and Mexico City was a brief announcement from the British Foreign Office: Lord Templewood (Sir Samuel Hoare), Britain's ambassador to Spain, is going home. Lord Templewood, long hated as an appeaser by Laborites, leftists and liberals, has skated over the thin ice of Anglo-Spanish relations since 1940. "At that time," said the Foreign Office, "it was expected [his] mission would be of short duration. But in the ensuing years situations arose which made it desirable for him to continue his special mission. However, he now feels the time has come when...