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Russians used them to whip artillery to the Stalingrad front to crush Nazi tank attacks. British used them to scout, fight and pursue Rommel 2,000 miles. U.S. troops had one waiting for President Roosevelt at Casablanca. Everywhere the tough, square, squat jeeps are bouncing the backsides of the United Nations. Potentates and savages ride jeeps; soldiers regard them fondly, pat their rugged sides. But the fondest pats of all come from Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., foster parent of the jeep. To Willys the jeep is a plug-ugly duckling who laid a golden...
...announced that the French Committee of National Liberation had begun to function. By week's end it was clear that De Gaullism would dominate the central power. Peyrouton was replaced by General Catroux. Notorious ex-Vichyite General Auguste Noguès (he had opposed the U.S. landing at Casablanca) stepped out as Resident General of Morocco. The purging process, first of many hard tasks before the new France, had begun. This week, the seven-man committee expanded its membership to 14, assigned portfolios...
President Barclay and President-elect W. V. S. Tubman were in America to return the visit paid by President Roosevelt when he stopped in Liberia, to inspect U.S. troops on his trip back from Casablanca. Not since Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to stay for lunch in 1901 had a Negro been a guest at the White House. Last week the Liberian President and President-elect became the first ever to spend the night there. Southern Congressmen shuddered-what would their people think...
Dominant in the Washington world was bullnecked, beaming Winston Churchill. He was there with a purpose beyond that of conferences with his allies. In Casablanca he and Franklin Roosevelt had planned actions now under way. In Washington they reached decisions which will not mature for months-months in which Allied unity may be given a severe trial. Already, as the two men conferred, voices were raised in the U.S. against their war planning, which gave priority to the theater in Europe (see col. 3). To still these criticisms, to convince the U.S. people of the wisdom of Allied strategy, Churchill...
Schedule in the West. At Casablanca plural invasions were planned but not precisely scheduled. The fall of Tunisia, a month earlier than had been hoped, made it possible: 1) to schedule further attacks exactly; 2) to coordinate them with the military situation in Russia...