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...people's will. We will support the Government for the sake of unity. De Gaulle has promised an election when the prisoners and deportees return. He has promised to turn the Government over to the elected representatives of the people. The Government must not-the Government dare not-thwart the will of the people...
...still a question how many of his divisions would escape encirclement in the long range. Alexander had laid out his campaign as a design for destruction. Kesselring had to thwart that design and still try to guess his foe's tactical...
...thwart this plan, the Wehrmacht dipped into its reserves, last week mounted a counterattack. German infantry, tanks, bombers struck at Narva, on the Baltic Sea; at Lwów, in old Poland; in the Carpathian foothills. But the Red Army, trained well in digging in, held its gains...
...Thus Mr. Roosevelt's desire to thwart General de Gaulle has led to the destruction of General Giraud and new divisions rather than greater unity among the French. This is inefficiency in the conduct of diplomacy...
...DELICATE APE- Dorothy B. Hughes -Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($2.50). Piers Hunt, field assistant to the murdered Secretary of Peace in a postwar Cabinet, dodges death just long enough to thwart the schemes of the "delicate apes" of diplomacy to bring on another world war. Imaginative, melodramatic, continuously suspenseful. An unusually effective tour de force...