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...this week complete tactical success was in sight. Given a day or two of clear skies, Brigadier General Gordon P. Saville's 12th Tactical Air Command could get in its licks at the Rhine bridges, perhaps complete the local pattern of encirclement...
...first Superforts had arrived over Tokyo flying high and riding tail winds that boosted their speed to around 400 m.p.h. The Japs were surprised, their defenses were weak. The big Forts laid a pattern of bombs across the main target, sprawling Nakajima Aircraft plant, eleven miles from Tokyo's center. They saw heart-warming fires spring up, then high-tailed for their island home...
...strike the Administration in the next few weeks, most of Washington would be vastly surprised. Term IV orators had campaigned strenuously on the theme of keeping a war-winning "team" in office. And continuity remained the New Deal keynote. The Old Faces were staying. Political observers saw a clear pattern for the future in the President's efforts to hold the old team together. War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes was persuaded to stay until Germany falls; so were Chairman William H. Davis and two associates...
Less impressive than Winston Churchill's visit to Paris, but important in the pattern of Europe's power politics, were goings & comings to & from Moscow...
...pattern of power politics crystallized in eastern Europe, another pattern was beginning to take shape in the west. Last week Belgium's Foreign Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak, arrived in London to talk western power bloc with Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden...