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...polite and icy command from the State Department ordered closed all Italian consulates in the U. S. A diplomatic prelude was at an end. Within a week in swift moves and countermoves the U.S. had frozen German and Italian funds, ordered all Axis consuls out of the country, clamped down on Nazi propaganda agencies, and barricaded its borders against German and Italian travelers trying to get out or in. In retaliation Germany and Italy closed U.S. consulates in most of Europe and blocked U.S. funds. Caught in the onrush of this diplomatic war were thousands of Germans, Italians...
...chopper." Soon the men in the halted tanks heard rifle fire, saw Cutrupi surrounded by riflemen. An umpire's flag waved and an officer walked down the road. Kidwell's tank was out, he ruled, but Kidwell was no casualty. Down the road ran the tank commander to the rest of his command, still back of the trees. "Where are you going?" asked a newsman. "I'm going to get some more tanks and knock hell out of 'em," he grinned...
Said Mr. Stimson: "We favor autonomy of the air arm rather than segregated independence." His primary reason for this preference was thoroughly realistic: a completely independent air force would be effective only under a supreme command like the Nazis' Great General Staff, directing Army, Navy and Air. The U.S. has no such supreme command, and any effort to set one up in the midst of emergency would require "a general reorganization and redesign of the entire defense organization of this nation...
...Stimson argued that this was too big a job to undertake in emergency, held further that the U.S. form of government did not lend itself to a supreme command. If this reasoning was correct, his autonomous air force obviously made more sense for the U.S. than a completely independent force would make, and the few, long-sighted observers who thought that the U.S. would some day have to come to a real high command for all its forces might as well give up hope for the duration...
...Ministry announced that Sir Philip Bennet Joubert de la Ferte had been given charge of the Coastal Command, succeeding Sir Frederick ("Ginger") Bowhill, assigned to organize the flying of U.S. planes to Britain. Appointment of genial Sir Philip pleased the British who knew him for his peppy BBC talks which told them more about the R.A.F. than they ever read in the newspapers. Credited with being largely responsible for the development of effective night-fighting equipment, Sir Philip was expected to step up Coastal Command attacks on enemy shipping, and he immediately launched an intensified campaign...