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...businessman and farmer. In place of rigid protectionism, the Association blue-printed its own plan for a booming postwar trade. Nub of the plan: Expansion of foreign trade by a scaling-down in U.S. tariffs. Said the Association: "The fear that competition with 'cheap foreign labor' would destroy American labor standards and the American standard of living is without real substance...
...Command intended to force a decision west of the Rhine, and specifically west of that stretch of the Rhine covering the Ruhr. The German gamble suited Generals Eisenhower and Bradley down to the ground: they both believed in the good old copybook maxim that it is more important to destroy the enemy than to capture ground...
...same press conference, Eisenhower implied that by now the Germans were virtually committed to fight the last western battle in front of the Rhine. His reasoning: Allied air power can destroy the river bridges behind them at any time. The steep-banked, swift-running Rhine is higher now than at any time except in early summer. Between Cologne and Dusseldorf the river is 380 yds. wide. To get back across it with the bridges down would be, for the Germans, "almost a naval operation." The Germans know this, but they are still sending reinforcements westward across the Rhine...
...French triumph and the riddance of the enemy from all but the last bits of France. By this week the southernmost sector of the western front held the promise of the first success in the Allies' surging campaign to break up the enemy's weaker forces and destroy them piecemeal...
...period between the two World Wars, French foreign policy had made two vital mistakes. It had failed to destroy German imperialism. It had failed to recognize the importance of Russia...