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...foam above the rapids of a river. After the long years when the very grace of his writing gave the impression that it lacked substance, his especial gift, intuitive, sympathetic, has come into its own. The ceremoniousness and hospitality of the Latin American mind are his, as is its sudden poetic insights, its brilliant intellectual discoveries that are tossed aside, like a master artist's sketch, as soon as they are made...
...Italy the Wehrmacht's generalship and soldiery had been superb. However badly the Allied command may have miscalculated the total effects, the sudden Italian surrender last September dangerously exposed the Nazi line across southern Europe. But the Wehrmacht had anticipated the Anglo-American landing at Salerno, thereby scotched the Allied plan for a sweep to Rome. It accurately gauged the Badoglio Government's weakness. It understood the possibilities of terrain and weather, knew how to capitalize on them. It won time to build a vicious, vexing defense in depth...
...Battle. The defeat virtually bankrupted the studied German policy of "the fleet in being"-a cautious hoarding of potential naval strength in safe Baltic or Norwegian bases, thus restricting the movements of Allied naval units nearly four times as strong, which had to be held near by to meet sudden sea raids. Allied tallies indicated that the Scharnhorst must have been the only German capital ship in fighting trim when she made her dash to the north. The fact that she was thrown away on a convoy-raiding mission was of itself a revealing indication of growing desperation, of strain...
...Conferences will be held in various parts of the world, mostly to no purpose whatever, and statesmen and public officials will continue their nerve war on the people by predicting a sudden end to the war one day, and warning everybody that a long, hard, bloody struggle is ahead of us the next...
Lesson in Landing. Tarawa had shown up other deficiencies: costly had been the failure of Higgins boats and other landing craft to get over Betio's reef (TIME, Dec. 6). The Navy blamed this on a sudden strong wind that lowered the water. For the next atoll, they might be prepared with improved boats or amphibious machines adapted from the "Alligator" tractor that can crawl over a sharp coral shelf...