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Said Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell: "It is easy to say that the 50 trucks or the 200 engines which could not be produced against schedule this month can be made up next month, but a battlefield lost on Tuesday is difficult to regain on Wednesday...
...suggestive fact that the French people's national epic, Chanson de Roland, glorifies its defeat in war. For France, almost since its emergence as a nation, has been not only Europe's cultural capital, but its favorite battlefield and biggest graveyard. Living men have twice seen France smashed as a nation-in 1870 and in 1940. The French defeat of 1870 has long been associated with the name of Marshal Bazaine. Marshal Pétain has become almost a synonym for the collapse...
Cause. What caused the unexpected lag in production at the very time when increases are required? Some individual drops are traceable to the redesigning of equipment, to changeovers because of new battlefield needs. Some have been caused by strikes and floods. But the lag has apparently been far too general to be traceable to any of these isolated causes...
...airborne attack was launched from Campbell Field, Ky., 100 miles northwest of the battlefield. In the grey mist big transports thundered down the runways closely spaced, each plane crammed with paratroops and each towing a bulky Army glider...
...home front-as well as the battlefronts-clearly worried Jap propagandists last week. The radio exhorted: "The battlefield spirit must be preserved within the home front. . . . There are many complaints. . . . But who suffers even more? It is Europe. . . . They are eating rats or crows. We are not, yet. . . . Our lot is not so hard." A mass rally in Tokyo struck another theme: "The enemy, America and Britain, is coming forward. . . . The war situation has become strained. . . . The 100,000,000 people of Japan must consolidate the feeling of hatred toward the enemy...