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...gratifying, too, that General Eisenhower would probably be flanked in North Africa by three crack Britons -General Sir Harold Alexander, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham. (The shift in command also sent air-minded Lieut. General Frank M. Andrews to head all U.S. troops in the European theater -with his base in England, now one long runway for bomber attacks on Germany...
...these probabilities provided concrete evidence only of this: that at least two of the United Nations could agree on a unified command, and if U.S. prestige had been advanced, U.S. responsibilities had been immensely increased...
...Signed a glowing letter of praise to Russia's Joseph Stalin: "I congratulate you on the brilliant victory at Stalingrad of the armies under your supreme command. ... All Americans are celebrating today. . . . One of the proudest chapters in this war of the peoples united against Naziism and its emulators. . . ." To the White House came an equally warm reply from Stalin...
...Caribbean has been cleaned up sufficiently to justify sending Rear Admiral James L. ("Sub Buster") Kauffman last week to a hotter, undisclosed area of command...
...German High Command claimed the sinking by U-boats in January of only 63 vessels of 408,000 tons-well under the rate of 630,000 tons a month which they claimed for 1942, and less than half the 1,000,000-a-month loss unofficially estimated for recent months...