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...panzers, fought until his division ran out of ammunition, was finally taken prisoner. Held in the fortress of Königstein (from which General Henri Giraud escaped) until July 1941, when the Germans released him in the belief that he would help Vichy defend its territory against Anglo-American attack. Took command of Vichy forces in North Africa, and after putting up some resistance against the Western Allies in 1942, joined them along with Darlan. Led his North African troops brilliantly against the Germans in Tunisia and Italy...
Since then he has become the most extraordinary Yank Oxford has ever had -a sort of one-man Anglo-American alliance, whose interests have flitted back & forth across the Atlantic like the Holmes-Pollock letters themselves. His Essays in Jurisprudence and the Common Law is a major work in its field; and no barrister, solicitor or judge dares to miss his notes and comments in the Review. He became the second American to be made a King's Counsel,* one of the few ever to be knighted, the first to head Oxford's faculty...
...time when Anglo-American unity was never more necessary [General Omar Bradley] broadcasts his criticisms of the conduct and strategy of several of our top generals. As these are the very men with whom General Bradley will have to cooperate should another war break, it is difficult to see what useful purpose is served by this muckraking...
Scribbled in a notebook among the Canadian spy papers was the name Fuchs, but for a long time nobody thought to connect the name significantly with German-born Klaus Fuchs, an anti-Hitler refugee who was high in Anglo-American atom councils. Four years passed before Klaus Fuchs was arrested in England (and sentenced to 14 years). His confession led to the arrest of Courier Harry Gold in Philadelphia. The trail from Harry Gold led to the Rosenbergs, Greenglass and Soviet Spy Master Anatoli Yakovlev, who was ostensibly a Soviet vice consul in New York...
...Warmonger MacArthur," railed Radio Peking, "made a fanatical but shameless statement . . . with the intention of engineering the Anglo-American aggressors to extend the war of aggression into China . . . MacArthur's shameless tricks . . . will meet with failure...