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Later the War Department frisked Wedemeyer's memory for tidbits about Hitler, Göring, Goebbels and other Nazis. It showed scant interest in his incisive opinions about the Wehrmacht's masterminds and master weapons. Only one man took the captain's technical report seriously-Brigadier General George Marshall, then assistant chief of staff of the War Plans Division. Marshall had a long talk with the military student from Germany. When he became Chief of Staff, he remembered Wedemeyer...
Ribbons of Flesh. A few others got as far as the low, 3-ft.-thick band of barbed wire beside the electric fence before they were shot or died of burns. So awful was their agony that they paid scant attention to the angry prongs of barbed wire and wiggled under even though it ripped their flesh to ribbons. A handful, protected by the mad confusion, succeeded in getting over the fence, hastily stripped off their burning clothes, and started running eastward across the flat plowed field. On the other side of the field was a tank also retreating eastward...
Leon Henderson probably would recommend more U.S. aid (civilian supplies. gold bullion) to bolster China's economy. Even if his counsel brought China scant immediate relief, it was another sign that hope had replaced despair...
...third corner was the State Department, vigorously backed by Harry Hopkins (who was still at the Mayo Clinic suffering from a nutritional ailment). State argued long & loud that the U.S. was losing face in liberated Europe because of the scant food supplies sent there. In Belgium, for instance, the hungry populace was growing desperate. In France, to which the U.S. has sent only 10% of the food and other supplies furnished by the Germans, there was a growing chip-on-the-shoulder attitude toward the U.S. Argued Hopkins and the State Department: democracy in the liberated countries will founder...
...fact was, and he knew it, that in a world where there is little demand for men whose only training is as King-Emperor, he was technologically unemployable, an obsolete man. He might have liked to be Governor General of Canada, but there was scant chance of it-not so long as straitlaced Bachelor Mackenzie King was the Dominion's Prime Minister. Australia had already received his brother Gloucester. And the British were not likely to make David's Wally Vicereine of India. Perhaps France and conspicuous unemployment were inevitable...