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...first, confused days of moving and readjustment were past. The official mourning for Franklin Roosevelt was over. Now a new pattern of life in the White House took shape. Once again, as under the Roosevelts, the White House was a home for an active, happy family...
...Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, at last defeated and taken in Austria, notably broke the pattern insofar as he professed complete loyalty to Adolf Hitler, blamed defeat on both military and political bunglers. But, smiling and spruce and personally unbowed, he was a living embodiment of Wehrmacht "honor." ¶I General Kurt Dittmar, theGerman ground forces' prize analyst, was asked by his U.S. and British captors to write a speech for broadcasting to the defeated Germans. He did, but it was not used: he had composed a masterful exoneration of the Wehrmacht...
...western Europe and eastern Europe faced each other except across a buffer of German or Austrian power. For some 500 years most of the history of Europe has been a series of variations, mostly tragic, on this geographic and political fact. Victory in Europe had finally destroyed this historic pattern. Henceforth western Europe and eastern Europe must live face to face...
...personnel is available for a comprehensive check upon the pattern outlined by the Committee. Advance approval upon a new and untried plan presents great difficulties. Its operation cannot be anticipated. The public interest requires careful observation of its consequences as it swings into action...
...armies in the west came up to its final phase last week. Few historic campaigns have gone according to their advance blueprints, but the battles in which the main body of the enemy's forces west and east of the Rhine were clawed apart followed the original Eisenhower pattern almost to the letter...