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Rugged German resistance had blocked anything remotely like one of Monty's old desert breakthroughs; the Allies had failed to bring off their prime objective of entangling the German armor in a battle of destruction. For the moment the Allied problem was to gather more power, wheel it into position, get another drive started...
...miles. Then it stalled in front of a murderous screen of German 88-mm. guns, mortars, cleverly emplaced tanks firing like mobile pillboxes. The tanks could not plow into the wall of fire that faced them; they had to be drawn back without achieving a major clash with German armor. Correspondents applauded Monty's economy of casualties...
...Spanish Civil War was a laboratory for the Russians as it was for the Axis. The Russians watched the German Blitzkrieg rehearsal with military as well as political interest; at Guadalajara their own planes effectively chewed up the Italian armor in the world's first great demonstration of attack aviation. But their planes were behind the times. Soviet design and production were not up to Soviet theory. By the beginning of the Finnish war the Russian planes were still not up to snuff and the job had to be done mainly with that faithful old standby -masses of artillery...
Dempsey said the enemy was in a "considerable turmoil," and that Nazi communications were "in a very sticky state" from Allied air attacks. But he added a quiet warning: the Germans had evidently massed the heaviest weight of armor ever wielded in western Europe. There was no doubt about it: the battle ahead would be an Armageddon...
...that "Monty kind of a war" distresses the Germans as much as it delights the British. It means the kind of war he fought on the open desert of North Africa: careful, precise preparation, control of the air, a murderous blow with every weapon in the lockers of his armor. Eccentric, unorthodox, picturesque Monty is the military idol of his country...