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...Italians. "The lesson which the Italians must take to heart is ... that a second-class Power cannot be built into a master race by rhetoric, grimaces, blackmail and castor oil, and that attempts to ride to conquest on the coattails of others will end in humiliation and disaster no matter which of the major contestants wins...
Coming battles would show what place Italy held in the Allied High Command's grand strategy; Winston Churchill seemed to think that the complete conquest of Italy would be a big job in itself. One thing was certain: Italy was the key to the whole plan in southern Europe...
...delays were not serious. Holding southern Calabria and moving into Apulia, the British held very little of Italy. But that little was secure, it was open to as many more men as the Allied commands cared to send across the Strait of Messina, and to enlarge their conquest the invaders had only to keep on marching...
...news of Italy's surrender came over the air at 11:47 a.m. (E.W.T.). By lunchtime the extras were on the streets. But after the thunderous fall of Mussolini, after the conquest of Sicily and the Italian invasion, the biggest news of the war had an air of anticlimax. The U.S., by & large, greeted the collapse of Fascism's cradle with almost complacent indifference. An old New York custom sent down a brief explosion of ticker tape and torn telephone-book pages from its sky scraper windows; on Mulberry Street the sad-eyed people of "Little Italy" over...
...Troops. For a massive blow, Eisenhower had the troops. Correspondents in Algiers, London and Washington freely reminded the world, including the enemy, of the forces available to him. There was British Lieut. General Kenneth Anderson's First Army, trained for conquest of Northwest Africa and hardened in victory there. Only one of Anderson's divisions had been used in Sicily, the hill-taking 78th. There was U.S. Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark's Fifth Army, built and trained behind the lines during the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns, undoubtedly poised. Possibly included in the Fifth: two infantry divisions...