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...retreat. During this time, satellite troops would be used to the utmost. Heavy losses would be inflicted, particularly on Americans, whose people would not tolerate them in battles far from home. While the Allied will to fight was being sapped, German political warfare would drive a wedge between the Anglo-Saxons and the Russians. Then two paths would open a negotiated peace with either the Eastern or the Western Powers. Contacts were already being made in Stockholm and Madrid...
...General smiled, gave them a message: "Please tell your chief that I am on my way to visit General Montgomery's headquarters and will be in Bayeux within an hour." People's Man. In Bayeux, first French town liberated by Anglo-American arms, loudspeakers blared the news of the General's coming. Hurriedly shops closed, Tricolors were unfurled. The people went into the streets. Children ran alongside their elders, pestered them with questions, heard only the words, "De Gaulle! General de Gaulle...
...British Prime Minister had patted the Badoglio Government on the back, given it his "every confidence" (TIME, June 5). Now the anti-Fascist Italians stood at a frustrated impasse. Such intervention, they said darkly, would be the last disillusionment for Italy's democrats, would kindle antagonism against the Anglo-American liberators...
...first reaction was elation. The papers said that the Anglo-Saxons had stirred up a hornet's nest. Their spearhead would be broken and the Wehrmacht would be free at last to teach the Russians the futility of further efforts to advance. The fond dream of a negotiated peace began to come alive. Quislings sent brave greetings to the Fiihrer-duly published- and the people recalled the devastating powers of mysterious secret weapons...
Said he: "Had the church succeeded in placing all nations on the heart of her people, we should never have been bedevilled by the hideous pagan isolationism. . . . American Protestant Christianity [is] generally a one-class church. ... It is a sorry and alarming fact that Anglo-Saxon white Protestants seem to be imbued with more feeling of racial superiority and are guilty of more arrogant snobbery toward those of another color than any other people. The church has apparently not succeeded in inculcating humility in English-speaking whites...