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Winston Churchill, lately a leading player of Big-Power politics, had cannily declined to commit himself. Publicly, he had neither qualified nor abandoned Britain's belief that she must have the Commonwealth & Empire behind her in order to remain a Great Power. His sage old friend, South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts, came out last year for the strongest possible Commonwealth bloc, as a friendly offset to the U.S. and to "the new colossus," Russia. Last week Smuts kept his counsel about Commonwealth centralization. But when the news of a League plan leaked out, with it came...
...Allied airmen are prepared to protect invasion forces. They believe that Germany will have to commit all her hoarded air power almost immediately; that the real air knockout will probably follow swiftly...
...First Phase. So for the first few days, at least, fighting on the Gustav Line would be a job of battering the enemy, feeling him out, making him commit his reserves to the wrong place. Possibly not even General Alexander could yet tell where he would finally thrust his knife to rip up the spine of Italy...
...highways and strategic railroads would be shot into action as the battle developed into a full-out push at the heart of the Reich. If the invasion was to be stopped, Rommel and Rundstedt would have to make a quick, accurate diagnosis of Eisenhower's intentions, then commit their forces without delay in a great gamble for victory...
...from England have repeatedly made the point that the G.I. Joes over there behave better than their fathers did in 1917-18. Yet, among so many, there must always be a few who go A.W.O.L., who impersonate officers, who engage in petty larceny ; and an even smaller minority who commit rape or murder. The total of convictions obtained against G.I. felons up to last week by the Provost Marshal's Office in England is relatively small: about...