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...headquarters, General Alexander paid his own tribute to the Anglo-U.S. troops of the Fifth Army: "The bridgehead force has played a most important role in the strategy of the Italian campaign. The enemy, unable to ignore this threat or to deal with it with troops he had available in southern Italy, was forced to send reinforcements from elsewhere which he could ill spare. These troops have been pinned down by our forces for four months...
...With surprising agility, Kesselring had moved up five divisions to contain the landing forces. The weather was bad. Most of the time the ground was too wet for tanks to maneuver efficiently. Begun after Alexander had taken over from General Eisenhower, it had become one of the most rugged Anglo-U.S. operations...
...speech as lofty as Churchill's was plain, Eden sought to exorcise some of the forces bedeviling Allied diplomacy. International suspicion, said he, "has unhappily always played its part in Anglo-Russian relations, and it has a habit of accumulating suspicions on their side which produce countersuspicions on ours and, before we know where we are, a mountain of suspicion is the result...
...known to every alienist he passed from loquacious vanity, boasting and shouting, to uncontrolled lunacy. ... I do not know when he became certifiable. . . . Our real enemies, the supporters of the long tradition of Vansittart's unanswerable Black Record, are at one with the viler elements of our own Anglo-Saxon ruling classes, in wanting him to come to an end, before the liberating resentment and enlightenment, that follow the stresses of every great war, lead to actual world revolution. . . . He will never commit suicide-he hasn't the guts and our proper treatment...
...Franklin Roosevelt. "Franklin D. Roosevelt, like our own Winston Churchill, is a natural born war leader, a necessary evil, but more alive to constructive ideas than our very Anglicized Anglo-American Winston...