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...troops they had met when the two armies came together at the Elbe River, were ushered into the Kremlin for more of Khrushchev's camaraderie. He autographed their short-snorter bank notes, received with thanks a map showing the point where Soviet and American troops first met before V-E day. When Alexander Lieb of Sherman Oaks, Calif, gave Khrushchev a ballpoint pen as a souvenir, Nikita, laughing, handed over a more expensive fountain pen in return...
...After V-E Day, Katz returned to Washington, where he first helped work out the organizational changes required for the transition from the wartime activities of OSS to a permanent peacetime Central Intelligence Agency. Upon transfer to the Office of the Secretary of the Navy, he "was assigned to the so-called Eberstadt group . . . in the preparation of a report on the Unification of the War and Navy Departments and Postwar Organization for National Security...
...last three OSS men in Germany when the group was disbanded, Ford had his most interesting experience after V-E Day. In line with his work on political reorganization, he sat in on interviews with captured generals. His closest contact was with General Guderian, whose mind he characterizes as "naive politically, but brilliant and retentive." The former chief of the German General Staff provided for the trial of his colleagues...
...After V-E day, George wanted to dine with Stalin in Berlin, but Montgomery put his foot down. Monty would not guarantee his safety. But there is probably no truth in the legend (which, of course, an official biographer does not mention) of George's crack about Monty. "Sir," said General Eisenhower, "I have to tell you that I hear Montgomery is after my job." "Relieved to hear it," said George VI. "I thought he wanted mine...
...morning of V-E day, 1945, ten thousand Moslems appeared in the streets of Abbas' own home town of Setif brandishing banners which read, DOWN WITH COLONIALISM, FREE MESSALI. There was a scuffle as gendarmes tried to wrest the banners away, and then, inevitably, a shot rang out. In sudden fury, bands of Moslems took off through Setif, savagely attacking every European they saw with clubs, knives and hatchets. And as word of the Setif "uprising" spread through the rugged mountains of Kabylia, bloodthirsty Berber bands, killing, pillaging and looting, set off on the warpath against the area...