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...Thin-lipped, five-starred General Georges Catroux, Fighting French commander in Syria and Lebanon, was the preconference intermediary. Catroux loves France, Siamese cats, fancy bodyguards. He admires De Gaulle, is a brilliant conversationalist and colonial administrator. He was expected this week in Algiers to start early negotiations with Giraud. It was also expected that he might wind up later with a high administrative post, possibly succeeding stubborn Charles Noguès, Resident General of French Morocco. If Giraud and De Gaulle get together, then true progress toward French unity will have been made...
...face turned stern. "This one's not so hot. What do you mean, sticking a tank up on that block like that?" He looked up and then back at the thin orange-backed book in his hands-then he slowly began to grin, then a broad smile, and then he was laughing again...
...country was to have a military force of eleven million by the end of 1943, this vast disruption of U.S. life seemed inevitable. Still untapped was the reservoir of draftable manpower from 38 to 45, but Selective Service estimates show that in this group the military pickings are thin and thinner. The dwindling number of single men among the older-age group (see chart) no longer meant anything to Selective Service. But the steady decline in physical fitness from 18 to 45 (which was well known) did. The weight of the draft must fall on the man under 30, married...
...General Bruce Scott speaking pensively between sips of soup: "What is war? Who is the enemy? What is he? We can only grasp at the shape of the antagonist before us, and then when you think you've solved the mystery of his personality, he vanishes into thin air like a jinni. . . . What makes me cross is that by evening he knows exactly where we are, but we don't know where he is 'or what...
...rafts and began the hike which was to take them to the Chindwin River and over the harsh border mountains to India. The homespun, bowlegged general slogged along with his eye obstinately on his watch, counting out 105 steps to the minute. Cases of malaria cropped out. Faces grew thin. Pus-filled jungle sores broke out on legs and feet. Men stopped joking. They were in the jungle: "Festooned with giant green ferns, decorated with palms such as we had thought grew only in hotel lobbies, and laced and hung with thick lianas that dangled to the ground from heights...