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...week, as he has every week since 1938, "Captain" Chan climbed over the side, rowed solemnly ashore, asked with impassive Oriental punctilio for sailing orders. As always, there were none. For the Kwang Yuan there may never be any. "Captain" Chan bowed politely, bent his oars back to his command...
Colonel Burton Oliver Lewis, second in command at the Proving Ground, tried putting his arm around Mr. Barlow's shoulder. It was a fatal gesture. Mr. Barlow, without waiting for his bomb, exploded. He shouted: "I'm on the spot. I'm going to get the horselaugh of the whole nation. I'm going. . . ." Into his car he hopped, drove fiercely away, abandoning glmite, goats, goatherds, photographers, Congressmen and Colonel Lewis...
With that order, Gamelin, never able to get along with the politicians of the French Government, admitted failure, and a shake-up in the High Command became inevitable. Prime Minister Churchill (who named the fight then raging "The Battle of the Bulge") flew to Paris for a meeting of the Allied War Council. Premier Reynaud announced that the moment had come for "a change of men and methods." He called Marshall Pétain, hero of Verdun, to be his adviser, himself took charge of the Defense Ministry...
Herd Combat. Not on the Allied program was engagement of the German armored herds by herds of Allied tanks. Defensive warfare of position called for artillery replies to tank offensives. But such was the Germans' speed that the French command was forced to admit a war of maneuver had begun. When German Panzertruppen crossed the Albert...
Meanwhile the British Air Command started something it had not tried in all the eight months of World War II: night bombing of military and industrial objectives in Germany. British Wellingtons, Whitleys and Hampdens raided far into Germany. Oil storage tanks in Hamburg and Bremen were destroyed, communications bombed up & down the Rhineland...