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General George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, made this conception very clear last week. General Marshall addressed the Governors' Conference at Columbus, Ohio, but he might have been addressing himself to the Russians, and to their doubts that Britons and Americans comprehend the realities of all-out war. Said...
...Dismantling of tariff barriers by all democracies (starting with the U.S., Great Britain, Norway, Sweden and the Low Countries); 2) an all-out program to dismantle cartels and to regulate corporate monopolies; 3) the setting up of a minimal supranational Government to enforce the peace...
...Hold on at all Costs." Air enthusiasts, greeting the surrender as a historic achievement of all-out air warfare, were quick to recall Winston Churchill's remark before Congress in May, that the idea of bombing Germany into submission was "worth trying." Soberer heads recognized this as a victory of air power, but a victory won under laboratory conditions. The island fell because it was possible to isolate it completely from supporting bases on the mainland. This was the decisive factor, not the sheer weight of bombs. Malta in three years of war had taken many times the weight...
Since the experiment is definitely to be tried, Harris, Eaker & Co. can reasonably expect to get enough planes, men and bombs for an all-out trial. Mr. Churchill, Mr. Roosevelt and the heads of their armies and navies are duty bound to rate the air offensive as an uncertain experiment. They must assume that it will fail to knock out Germany, and that the bombers over Europe are hammering out a prelude to victory by invasion. But the airmen doing the bombing are under no such compulsion. It is now their business, and their inclination, to bomb for a knockout...
...marshaling a unit of undisclosed strength behind the southern flank, they turned the Japanese line, broke into the pass of Yuyangkwan, ousted a Japanese garrison and sent troops hotfoot after the Japanese retreating toward the east. The Chinese Air Force, for the first time in three years, was making an all-out effort to support ground operations, and elements of America's Fourteenth Air Force moved up to the Central China area for strategic bombing...