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...emissary and the general's chief of staff, a colonel, carried the terms to the headquarters of Major General Fritz Krause, commander of the sector. General Krause accepted the terms, got in the colonel's jeep. On the way back to U.S. headquarters, the colonel saw Germans setting fire to their trucks. He told General Krause to order them to stop. The general did. One of the Germans snapped: "Why should we give the damn Americans all this equipment?" General Krause pointed at the U.S. colonel in the back seat. The German grew confused, ordered...
...southern French sector and the Eighth Army's sector, the story was the same. First the Germans withdrew. They fell back all around Pont du Fahs. Then they counterattacked, and the Allies were stalled...
...internationalist, Senator Robert A. Taft, thus neatly evaded committing himself on the question of isolationism by refusing to recognize its existence. An observer unblinded by the necessities of political conciliation might perceive that isolationism was, is now, and will be a matter of burning moment for a great sector of our population, particularly for our representatives in the national legislature...
...troops moved 200 miles from the El Guettar sector in a swift and skillful march. General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, commander of Allied ground forces in Tunisia, issued a statement: "Senior British officers have the fullest admiration for the excellent staff work, particularly for the speed and secrecy with which the move was carried out. They equally praised the excellent march discipline of the U.S. Army troops on the roads...
...Germans, trying to enlarge their Caucasian bridgehead in the Kuban, threw eight to ten divisions into a fruitless offensive. In the Kalinin sector, northwest of Moscow, General Maxim Purkaev, Soviet Military Attache in Berlin when war began, led a limited Soviet drive through the scrubby birch forests. But the most important action was taking place behind the fronts...