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...Nazis would have to divert supplies to them which might otherwise go to the invasion coast. Likewise, Kesselring must be prepared for amphibious landings in the north. (Berlin radio fran tically forecast that Allied troops were poised in Corsica and Sardinia for such a purpose.) In the Anzio sector, stiff Prussian Colonel General Eberhard von Mackensen planned to meet another Fifth Army attack on the Germans' flank...
...Russia and Germany, is the combination against which Professor Spykman's texts and maps attempt to prove that the U.S. could not hope to win. His advice to the shapers of U.S. foreign policy: never permit the rimland to unite; always plan to play off one political sector of rimland against any possible rimland-heartland alliance. Professor Spykman's preference, like Thomas Jefferson's, is for the U.S. to marry itself to the British fleet and nation. But first the U.S. must overcome its "strange provincialism" in foreign affairs...
...three days after the major part of the battle had ended and we were out a few miles from the island patrolling our little sector of ocean, swinging back and forth in huge figures of eight. The noise and colors of battle were gone. The bombing had ceased and the big guns on the ships were silent...
...Market. "It is not that the people's distrust of the fighting nations' intentions has increased; it is much more than that. No political sector believes in the good intentions of any other, and worse still, they don't believe in their own. Nobody believes that tomorrow will be better than today, not for him, nor for his country, nor for the world...
They held it by aggressive commando raids. "The force's most outstanding action was a violent diversionary raid on the town of Sessano during a night when the situation was critical in another sector." So violent was the diversion that it "relieved pressure on the threatened area and made the Germans withdraw their main defense positions a mile or more on a long front"-but the whole job was done by only 100 face-blackened, bazooka-armed U.S.-Canadians...