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Clearly revealed at last were the inadequacies of Axis power. Not so clearly revealed, but beginning to emerge, was the possibility that the major leaders of the United Nations had had a global strategy from the beginning. Columnist Major George Fielding Eliot last week essayed to outline it, concluded that nothing happened by accident, that all had been planned and carried out with "magnificent precision." Reasoned Major Eliot: Last August when Russia was fighting off Germany's renewed attacks and it seemed certain that Japan would seize the chance to invade Russia's Far Eastern provinces...
...first flush of elation over U.S. landings in Africa had hardly died when the Navy told of smashing the Jap in the Solomons. Never before had the full realization of global war been hammered home so hard in one week-and out of the bitter fighting America had a new pride in itself...
...Global war no longer meant merely scattering troops to the ends of the earth; it now meant fighting bitter, agonizing battles 14,000 miles apart against full enemy forces. This was it: meeting the enemy face to face, ship for ship, tank for tank, plane for plane-and now, for a change, winning, at least sometimes...
...troops. Eisenhower was then elevated to the temporary rank of brigadier general. Five days after Pearl Harbor he was made chief of the War Plans Division of the General Staff, later the Operations Division in the reorganized Army. As such he laid out with General Marshall the whole global design of attack and defense...
...film lasts 20 minutes. Its scope is global. The camera swings from Paris to London to the U.S., from New Caledonia to Equatorial Africa. The commentary is terse. The screen itself, in its simple documenting of events and people, clinches one irrefutable fact: No U.S. citizen need question again the will of Frenchmen to be free...