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Eleven months after his forces invaded western Europe, Supreme Commander Eisenhower informed the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "Our mission is completed." Then Eisenhower began his next mission: the execution of "Plan Eclipse."
¶ John Amery (contrary son of Britain's Secretary for India Leopold Amery), another renegade Axis propagandist. He was threatened with execution by Italian partisans, saved his life by pleading British citizenship.
Next morning the Marshal and his wife were installed in a plainly furnished room of old Fortress Montrouge on the capital's outskirts. Below a barred window was the execution ground for those condemned by the Paris purge court. The Marshal glanced at the two beds, the two leather...
Already Germans were getting their first, all-important impressions of foreign rule since 1813. The reasoned vigor of General Eisenhower's regulations made sense. Sometimes the variation in their execution did not. At München-Gladbach last week a military government's court for civilians sentenced two...
Proletarian Whack. From Moscow, via London, came a venomously polite inquiry: two Spanish soldiers had been captured on the Russian front - long after Madrid announced withdrawal of its notorious Blue Division; what should the Kremlin do? Regard the two Spaniards as prisoners of war, despite their Government's announcement...