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...Major Problem. Apparently anticipating criticism of Bretton Woods in Congress, Franklin Roosevelt characterized the agreement as "the product of the best minds that 44 nations could muster." He added: "It would be a tragedy if differences of opinion on minor details should lead us to sacrifice the basic agreement achieved on the major problems...
...supplies were coming in; that was the important thing. The Chinese high command, in new headquarters at Kunming, prepared to muster its best forces: the American-trained First and Sixth Armies from India, the troops of bushy-mustached, "100-Victories" Marshal Wei Li-huang, the battle-tried formations of hot-tempered, half-pint General Hsueh Yueh. From Yünnan's high plateau these troops could look out over China's gullied lands; strike out to aid the Allies who might some day land on the coast...
...unfortunate enough to be killed in the war against militarism yet to be finished, I can't help but feel I shall have died in vain. Should I be fortunate enough to live, I will fight it with all the power one small voice can muster, inspired only by a sincere love of freedom...
...General Elwood Ricardo Quesada, head of one of the Ninth's chief components-the IX Tactical Air Command, whose fighter bombers were stationed back of the First Army. "Van" Vandenberg and "Pete" Quesada went over reports, decided that this was the real thing. The immediate task was to muster every fighter bomber into attacks, to impede Rundstedt's armored spearheads. Generals Van and Pete faced hard facts: 1) at many places air power alone stood between the German columns and their objectives; 2) there was little hope that the week-long drizzle and fog would let up long...
That assault was a model of sound tactics. First a shock unit rowed across the river at night, set up a small defense perimeter before German patrols caught on. By the time the Germans could muster local reserves, the Russians were moving in light guns and mortars. When the Russians held firm, the Germans called in more troops from other sectors along the river bank. In an area thus weakened, the Russians drove through a new crossing. Now the alarmed Germans began reaching back for strategic reserves, but the Russians, working quickly, joined the two bridgeheads, consolidated communications across...