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...with a touch of understatement. > "It was clear from the outset that the ascendancy in equipment which the enemy possessed played a great part in the operations." Germany concentrated at least ten Panzer divisions against the B.E.F., threw five of them at the British rear defenses, and the British command had no anti-tank guns for this area except those to be got by stripping the units at the front. General Gort's armored forces were only seven mechanized cavalry regiments with light tanks, a regiment of obsolete armored cars, two battalions of infantry tanks, most of these with...
...general, the son of a general, would be Premier. War Minister Lieut. General Eiki Tojo, a man of strong will and a friend of the Axis, was to head the nation. General Tojo hurried to the Emperor's presence and, leaving it, announced: "I have received an Imperial Command to form a new Cabinet and am overwhelmed with...
...relatively quiet Latin Quarter. The Governments of Portugal, Spain and France all gave signs of high satisfaction with the progress of the New Order. > Adolf Hitler's own Völkischer Beobachter announced that a Portuguese military mission would shortly be the guest of the German High Command. > In the French Fascist weekly Gringoire Spain's Foreign Minister Ramon Serrano Suner, brother-in-law of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, went much further than mere expression of Spain's own contentment. Wrote he: "I think that all Europe -continental Europe and overseas Europe as well, although this may seem...
...Isolationist Bennett Clark and obedient New Dealer Harry Truman. The Senators were aroused because Truman's cousin, 61-year-old Major General Ralph E. Truman, credited with saving the 35th Division from a rout at the Argonne Forest in World War I, had been relieved of his field command by Lieut. General Ben Lear, assigned to head the reclassification board of the Second Army. General Truman, who had been doing a lot of housecleaning in his own division, resigned rather than take his housemaid's assignment...
WERE AS SATISFACTORY AS YOU INDICATE, WHY DID YOU PERSONALLY RELIEVE HIM CF COMMAND? . . . YOU ARE TRYING TO BLAME THE TACTICAL DEFEAT WHICH YOUR ARMY SUFFERED [IN THE LOUISIANA MANEUVERS] ON TRUMAN AND VARIOUS OTHER NATIONAL GUARD OFFICERS, WHICH IS EXCEEDINGLY UNFAIR. YOU SHOULD RETIRE YOURSELF RATHER THAN MAKE GENERAL TRUMAN THE GOAT...