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...great port of Naples and the great airfields of Foggia. The General's implication: these, more than any other prize, put Anglo-American forces in position for a flank attack on southern France and/or the Balkan Adriatic coast. Presumably from Foggia's web of runways last week, Allied planes thrust an arm over Marshal Tito's troops, hammered the Nazi rail junction at Sofia and dromes near Athens...
Joseph Stalin had forced Franklin Roosevelt to make up his mind. Getting down to second front cases, he wanted to know who would lead the promised Anglo-American invasion of the continent. The Roosevelt-Churchill answer was General Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Gloom and Room. Technicians noted with gloomy satisfaction that there was a significant difference between the new treaty and the 20-year Anglo-Soviet Alliance of 1942. The British treaty, by its own terms, would be superseded by any overall security pact among the nations. The Czech treaty has no such provision; it is a straight two-way proposition regardless of any general international agreement...
...night during the London blitz, Anglo-Irish Poet Louis MacNeice once wrote in Common Sense...
...exporters launched a gusty blast at Government controls which banned the shipment of U.S. fats & oils to Mediterranean importers. They were angry because fats & oil needs in the Middle East are being supplied by British exporters exclusively. Joint Anglo-American economic strategy and shipping shortages dictated this allocation, but the exporters still feared a sellout to shrewd British traders...