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...possibly could only be accomplished, by coordinated Allied action. For that reason it was necessary for the U.S., Britain, Russia and China to get together on their war plans. Britain and the U.S., through the "unconditional-surrender" conference at Casablanca and through last week's North African High Command agreement, were in close liaison. The Russians still remained aloof. The Chinese, looking in the Anglo-American window, may well have moved, closer to the Russians...
Rome rumored that Mussolini had nipped a plot to make Ciano a Darlan. Another reported that Mussolini had dispatched elegant Crown Prince Umberto to command Italian divisions on the Russian front in order to thwart a clerical fascist peace move centering around the haggard House of Savoy...
Lieut. General Dwight D. Eisenhower last week indicated that the Americans and Britons in his North African command are having the troubles to be expected when Americans and Britons are crammed together under one military roof. Said General Eisenhower, in a memorandum obviously aimed at his U.S. officers...
...when crop-haired, electric Major General Harold Lee George of the U.S. Army looks at his Air Transport Command, it is the whole world he sees. At some of his bases camels lug in the fuel for U.S. transports; at others, sledge dogs; at others, Chinese coolies or Untouchables. Seeing what he sees, he can and does say that "to place any limitations on air transport at all would be to deny progress...
...most important U.S. command in World War II last week fell upon the husky shoulders of Lieut. General Dwight David Eisenhower. When he was appointed Chief of the Allied Forces in North Africa, with American, British and French land, sea & air forces under him, there was no longer any doubt that 52-year-old "Ike" Eisenhower was to be the Pershing of 1943. His immediate responsibility: to crack Tunisia, a nut which was beginning to look tougher every day. His probable eventual responsibility: to invade Europe...