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George Marshall. Unannounced, but confirmed by highest sources, was the imminent appointment of General George Catlett Marshall as chief of Anglo-American forces in Europe...
...history which are his. He had not come to apologize or to defend himself. Rather, he had come in triumph: "I cannot recollect," said he, "anything so complete and prolonged as the series of victories which have attended our Allied arms in almost every theater." He proclaimed progress in Anglo-American relations with Russia (see p. 38), but his speech was largely a report on "this amazing and fearful world...
Faced with the enormous portent of Anglo-U.S. alliance in a postwar world of fewer great powers, Britons had also to face the immensely strong position of the U.S. in such an alliance. Many a Briton might recall that, back in 1929, prescient old George Bernard Shaw had written a play called The Apple Cart. In that play U.S. Ambassador Vanhattan calls on Britain's King Magnus...
Broadcasts: An Anglo-U.S. "plot" overthrew Mussolini's Fascist regime; Italy's action was "the shameless betrayal of an ally whose deeds of valor in Italy's defense were recognized by the enemy themselves"; Badoglio acted "not only to maneuver Italy out of the war but to allow the Italian forces . . . to administer a stab in the back to the German troops on Italian soil...
...Mussolini is at liberty and his delivery to the Anglo-U.S. Allies . . . has been frustrated...