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...slithering through the upland jungles afoot, backed up by slit-eyed little Siamese soldiers from feckless Thailand, the invaders swarmed through the mountain passes on the Thailand-Burma border. They struck directly at Moulmein, about 170 miles east of Rangoon by the railroad around the Gulf of Martaban. Every Briton, every Colonial in the force that backed up before his advance knew what the enemy was after...
Their easy, effortless discipline startled watching British officers, whose Army still does things the hard way. A U.S. colonel ordered his men to fall in and march with : "We're moving, gentlemen," and "All right, boys, let's go." When the troops tramped smoothly off, a Briton said: "There's something we must learn from...
When they dropped into the Gerrard's Cross police station to report their intentions, they ran into an eccentric Briton, Sergeant Donald Robbie, who whipped out a pistol and backed them against the wall. But, having disillusioned the Sergeant, they spent an agreeable two hours strolling the town. Everywhere they talked snatches of German and their Germanic English. In a workmen's pub the proprietor recognized one of them as a former vacuum-cleaner salesman named Harry Pringle who had sometimes called before the war. Said the proprietor to Harry Pringle: "What are you doing in that getup...
...threatened that if the debate grew too critical he would call for a vote of confidence-knowing full well that, whatever the critics felt about his Cabinet or certain of his policies, few of them would want any other Briton in Downing Street. He also suggested that recordings be made of his speech for radio broadcasting. Parliament, knowing the public power of the Churchill rhetoric, turned this canny suggestion down...
Some people in Washington-still suffering from the national inferiority complex-which holds that an American is always out-traded by a Briton in a conference-feared that the Prime Minister had sold the President a bill of goods. But no man had grounds to say so unless he knew what the two had decided. They had got along together like a house afire, had sat up together, alone, talking away into the small hours. Presumably these private conferences were over the great question of how to win the war. They had parted, according to the White House, in "complete...