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...reason for the hazard was easy to see. The beachhead attack was only a part of a tactical concept which also included the forcing of other events. Because of the quick perception of the German command, and the good show its troops were putting on, the other events had failed to happen. Result: a temporary stalemate, still fraught with possibilities of defeat but still promising an Allied victory...
...Stone Wall. The invaders had not stood idle. But if the concept of their commanders, ranging down from Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson and Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, had called for a quick penetration of German rear areas from Nettuno, then they had failed...
...place of the old concept of character determining destiny, Remains therefore substituted the miscellaneous, accidental, casual, purposeless or only half-purposeful existence. Experience consisted of fugitive impressions, words overheard, scenes glimpsed. Men of Good Will succeeds in communicating what Remains wanted it to communicate: the density and complexity of the modern world. It fails to record its simplicities...
...conscience may be troubled. For, next to Freedom, the concept which Americans hold most dear is Justice. And to U.S. legalists the swift action of East European trials smacked unpleasantly of the drumhead. Will the war be won if Justice is lost? Yet what shall the U.S. reply if, attempting to impose its code of elaborate safeguards and tortuous delays, its injured allies turn on it and cry: "Did they burn your homes? Did they murder your wives and children...
...Washington there was no such clarity. The U.S. State Department was still on the record with its cold comment on the Czecho-Russian treaty; the unofficial explanation was still that the agreement did not fit the U.S. concept of "overall security." London sources took a precisely opposite view, held with the Russians that the treaty neither contradicted the principles of Teheran nor alarmed the British. One possible explanation: once again Mr. Roosevelt, speaking warmly of the Russians and all their recent works, knew more about actual U.S. policy than the State Department's functionaries did. A corollary explanation...