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...front-line criticism was impressively dismissed by fighting commanders, including Eisenhower and Patton, as a gripe. It was not until recently that field commanders decided the front-line men might be right and asked-but too late-for the T-26. There would not even be a token force of Pershings on hand now if Ordnance had not started building them more than a year...
...mission headed by Washington's wispy Lauchlin Currie and London's Dingle Foot. The Swiss, who three years ago were squeezed by the top-dog Nazis, now had to bend their neutrality to a squeeze from the opposite side: they agreed 1) to cut off all except token shipments of important civilian goods between Germany and northern Italy; 2) to switch all the electric current they export from Germany to France; 3) to impound all German-owned bank balances and help the Allies track down all German-owned securities, etc. which have gone into hiding in Switzerland. This...
Perhaps the figures were optimistic, on both sides-but the Germans were already showing the effect of serious losses. Although they kept up their bizarre token offensive in Alsace, they were pulling men and armor out of the Rhineland into central Germany, evidently hoping to hold the Westwall with Volksgrenadiere. The British profited by this withdrawal to move up to the Roer River, while Allied air attacks on the enemy's eastward movement gave direct tactical help to Russia...
Walking in his socks while his" mustachios curled magnificently skyward, the Maharaja carried a takri (basket) of earth from the site of the shrine. While thousands of his subjects chanted: "Sat Sri Akal!" ("Truth is eternal!"), the Prince bore his burden on his turbaned head in token of his total humility...
...days, the Japs faded away ahead of them. On the western flank, the Agno River was early crossed. In the center, where the river's great bend made a logical position for a determined Japanese stand, it was crossed again at week's end, still against only token opposition. On the east, there was stiff local resistance, but if the Jap had been hoping to move major forces south from Vigan for a flank attack, his hopes were dampened by the sinking of 45 luggers and a transport trying to land supplies off San Fernando. Sealing...