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They got their chance; the 82nd was too spent to exploit its breakthrough. So while one regiment of the 9th pushed west from Néhou, through St.-Jacques, another regiment passed the tired 82nd, pushed through St.-Sauveur in a parallel thrust. The enemy's 77th Division put up a bitter rear-guard fight, was savagely cut up and broken; those who could, escaped -but the wrong way, to the north...
...Nazis' reaction was small-scale and local, but swift and bitter. Infantry and tanks of the 77th, ordered to withdraw-when it was too late, tried to fight their way through the 9th's roadblock. The U.S. commander honored them with a "serenade": every gun within range opened up at maximum rate of fire. The carnage chilled even the victors' marrow. But the enemy's attempted sortie failed...
...Henry Ford celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary. It was also Mrs. Ford's 77th birthday. Mr. Ford spiced his anniversary week with a motor-company promotion (to an executive vice-presidency: his grandson, 26-year-old Henry Ford II) and a personal repudiation (of demagogic Gerald L. K. Smith, who had publicly declared that his brand of nationalism was like Ford's). Said potent Ford Spokesman Harry H. Bennett: "I want to state definitely for Mr. Ford, Charles A. Lindbergh, and myself, if and when Mr. Smith ever attempts to include us with his supporters, nothing is farther...
...record was a curiously uneven document. It came into being as the people's answer to the wretched 77th, which had botched and boggled its way into history, cursed from coast to coast for its pensions-for-Congressmen, its personal X-cards for gas, its lack of statesmanship...
Tojo was learning. At the 77th he had said it would be going too far to say that Japan aimed at "immediate liberation of the oppressed races." Now there might be more to gain by purring. Radio Tokyo beamed the independence theme at India, added: "Japan is resolved to exhaust all means to help eliminate Anglo-Saxon influences ... to enable India to obtain full independence in the true sense of the term." The true sense might be the Manchukuo sense; Tojo did not specify...