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...Deal Chicago Sun revived a six months' old anecdote, retold it as a choice bit of gossip. Said the Sun's Inside Washington column: When President Roosevelt was in Casablanca, General de Gaulle remarked that the French people regarded him as the spirit of Joan of Arc. Later, he let drop the comment that the French people thought of him as the reincarnation of Napoleon. To which Franklin Roosevelt jabbed: "General, I think you should make up your mind...
...blistering wave of air power flicked over the elected zones. Then the destroyers stood in from the sea and began a graceful, weaving parade offshore, their guns shooting tongues of flame at enemy pillboxes and strong points on land. Farther out battleships lobbed their heavy shells in high-arc interdictory fire to smash highways and crossroads deeper in the invasion area...
...directions-at Kursk from the area south of Orel, and from the Belgorod direction northward, also in the direction of Kursk. . . . It is sufficient to glance at the map to understand the operative plan of the German command. It envisaged the encirclement and annihilation of our troops along the arc of the Kursk salient...
...Russian forces "along the arc of the Kursk salient" constitute a goodly portion of the Red Army's best troops and armor. Kursk itself is a valuable railway and military center. But, as the Russians indicated, Nazi Field Marshal Günther von Kluge may well be more interested in the "encirclement and annihilation" of those forces than in geographical gains...
...Guiana revolted against Robert and joined both the Fighting French and Giraud, Valentino was freed. He made his way back to Guadeloupe. Last week he was reported to have led an ill-starred uprising against Robert early this month. Expecting support from the crew of the Jeanne d'Arc, lightly armed training ship moored off Pointe-a-Pitre, the rebels took possession of the island's radio station. They got no further. Governor Sorin called on the Jeanne d'Arc's crew for assistance and got it. A salvo from the ship was enough to spread...