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...Rundstedt had still more hidden reserves to commit to battle, he might possibly try to cut in behind the First and destroy the bulk of it, roll up the three other Allied armies to the north, recapture Antwerp and even wheel back into France. These were high stakes indeed, and the Germans' chances seemed correspondingly small...
...wall of British tanks and bayonets, voted, 116 to 12, to retain Premier Hubert Pierlot. In Brussels, there were many strikes. But most of Belgium was quiet. The Communists continued to shout: "The Pierlot Cabinet is condemned by the mass of people." Through the newly opened port of Antwerp, people expected Allied food...
Design for Decision. Destruction requires a mountain of supplies, and the Allied supply distribution system was well in hand. The famed Red Ball truck route across France was out of operation last week, because a more efficient rail web was now in service. While waiting for Antwerp to reach top unloading capacity, the Allies had the Dutch harbor of Flushing. They had also restored Le Havre and Rouen. If there are any more shortages, it will be because of inept estimates or because of short shipments from the home front. As General Eisenhower put it more delicately at a press...
...first few days the pace of the advances was not so impressive as the explosive amount of human and material pressure which General Eisenhower had built up. Marseilles was now in full operation, feeding the armies from the south, and the first ships had come into Antwerp while the channel was still being cleared. Eisenhower had prepared for this battle by winning the battle of supply...
...Allied high command announced that it would soon ship in enough food through Antwerp to insure Belgians a ration of 2,000 calories a day (present ration: a little more than 1,500 calories). By February, Belgians were also promised, raw materials will begin to flow through Antwerp at the rate of at least 5,000 tons a day to start Belgium's idle factories turning out supplies for the Allied armies...