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Others had. Passionate Internationalist Edgar Ansel Mowrer, for instance, who last February had resigned from his job as deputy director of OWI to conduct an uninhibited newspaper column on world affairs, submitted the hottest : "This Pravda piece means simply the breakdown of Anglo-American diplomacy." And the Moscow edict may indeed have been a unilateral P.S. to the Teheran communi...
Politicians and Kings. Teheran doomed Rumania's hopes that it could: 1) retain its prewar frontiers; 2) win Anglo-U.S. political support against the Soviet Union. Now, Bucharest must think again and think fast. It must find an alternative regime and spokesman which will satisfy the U.S., Britain-and Russia...
France still had a legal claim; juridically, the mandate still existed. But this was a tenuous handhold on an area which has traditionally been the scene of Anglo-French imperial rivalry. Commented London's Times with surprising frankness: the settlement "enables the [Syrian and Lebanese] Governments to concert measures which may eventually further that larger Arab union which is one of the aims of British policy in the Middle East...
Tourists in Uniform. Newspapers are full of talk about Anglo-American understanding and friendship (nobody knows TIME, JANUARY 10, 1944 exactly what to do about it). Oxford and Cambridge are open to American soldiers for study on furlough. People give joint Anglo-American parties, organize clubs and canteens, exchange purring speeches. Some inescapable friction remains. The Americans and the British are getting all mixed up together for war; whether their friendship will survive and last, none can tell...
...Italy the Wehrmacht's generalship and soldiery had been superb. However badly the Allied command may have miscalculated the total effects, the sudden Italian surrender last September dangerously exposed the Nazi line across southern Europe. But the Wehrmacht had anticipated the Anglo-American landing at Salerno, thereby scotched the Allied plan for a sweep to Rome. It accurately gauged the Badoglio Government's weakness. It understood the possibilities of terrain and weather, knew how to capitalize on them. It won time to build a vicious, vexing defense in depth...