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...Russians, this assemblage bore promise of war's end. True, there was friction among the Allies, but it was not beyond repair. Indeed, open discussion of the friction might be a healthy sign. The Government's Izvestia ticked off samples of "developing cooperation": the recent food conference at Hot Springs, Va.; agreement on the economic rehabilitation of freed territory; the creation, at Stalin's suggestion, of the Inter-Allied Mediterranean Commission; the joint acceptance by the U.S.S.R., Britain and the U.S. of Italy's re-entry into the war as a cobelligerent...
...White House advisers" was conspiring to kick General Marshall upstairs "to a glorified but powerless world command over Anglo-American forces"; 2) that the motive "is to use the Army's vast production program . . . as a political weapon in the 1944 Presidential campaign." As the President read he bore down jeeringly on the more purple key phrases...
Bertie Charles Forbes, Hearst financial columnist, publisher (Forbes Magazine), author (Keys to Success), was sued for a separation by his wife Adelaide after 28 years. She charged that her husband is a "bully, egotist, tyrant and bore," and that she had to "draw his bath, lay out his clothes, button his shirt and underwear, cut his toenails, lace his shoes and open his car door...
...President frankly boasted: "The American people and their Government are doing an amazingly good job. . . ." His figures on U.S. war production bore...
...fought the battles, Salerno was hell. At some points the Germans let the first forces come smoothly ashore and cluster on the white beaches, then blanketed them with artillery fire from the near hills. At others, naval landing craft bore the troops landward in the face of continuous fire. Everywhere the men of the Fifth Army had to establish themselves on the beaches, make their first moves inland amid shells, bombs, confusion, fear...