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...messenger for the Exposition railroad at the 1893 World's Fair. He worked on three other roads before he climbed aboard the Cotton Belt in 1916 as assistant to the president. In World War I he took time out to run the railroad yards at Brest and St. Nazaire as a lieutenant colo- nel. Back at the Cotton Belt, hardworking Railroader Green, who has a rare taste for mathematics, could soon recite the Cotton Belt's revenue figures, for any month or year, down to the last decimal. Green, who became chief executive in 1946, still works...
...power by the Communists in France would be for world strategy. The Soviet Union [would be] mistress of the European continent. . . . The Anglo-American position in Germany . . . would be encircled from the rear; the Mediterranean artery would be cut . . . while Soviet submarine and air bases would be established at Brest and St. Nazaire, at Casablanca and Dakar. . . . Now it is likely that the Soviet Union, ill recovered from the terrible blows of war . . . does not wish a test of arms in the immediate future.... It is therefore essential that the French Communists now keep and increase their strength with...
...Paris, Brest, Avignon and elsewhere there were demonstrations against the Ramadier Government. Marchers carried placards which said: "Ramadier-Demission-Resign, Ramadier". Some of the demonstrations ended in scuffles with the police. Some appeared to be led by Communists of the French General Confederation of Labor. The Communist Central Committee charged Ramadier with "practising De Gaulle's politics without De Gaulle," and called for a left coalition to beat De Gaulle's French People's Rally in the October elections...
...France, some time later, Winston Churchill arrived for a conference at SHAEF Forward Camp, tried to argue Eisenhower into shifting the scheduled amphibious attack against Southern France to the still-occupied ports of Brest, Lorient and Saint-Nazaire. Writes Butcher: "Ike said no, continued saying no all afternoon, and ended saying no in every form of the English language at his command...
...Colonel LeMay perceived the reason: the bombers were taking evasive action in the face of heavy German ack-ack and fighter interception; pilots would shirk from holding their course the five or six minutes necessary to make good, sound bombing runs. LeMay announced that he would bomb the Brest submarine yards himself, and that he would hit the target...