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Stalin's Architects. What Bradley and Patton did in Normandy and after, says Wilmot, was made possible by Montgomery's canny generalship around Caen that enabled the Americans to break out. Only occasionally is Monty chided for caution; in the end his virtues completely swamp his faults. Bradley gets sterner treatment. Heavy U.S. casualties during the Normandy landings, says Wilmot, were largely the result of Bradley's refusal to use British-invented armored weapons and machines that helped cut British losses to a minimum. Bradley declined to use the British "Crabs" (flailing tanks that could smash...
Since both methods are still in the developmental stage, Sweet expressed caution in discussing how extensive a use might be made of them. But he claimed that if "things moved favorably, wide-spread usage of both might be expected...
...atmosphere hot with the steam of seething tempers, the riven ranks of British Labor met last week in a parliamentary committee room to patch up their difference-or open the rift irrevocably. For once, Party Leader Clement Attlee had thrown his native caution to the winds. He came to the meeting armed with a resolution demanding that the rebel Bevanites come to heel, without reservation. They must support, among other things, rearmament. Bevan himself, in a speech in his own constituency of Ebbw Vale, had all but threatened to withdraw from the party if such a resolution were pressed...
Pitzer, commenting on a speech which he gave before the American Chemical Society's Southern California branch this weekend, lashed out at the top advisors whose "skepticism" and "over caution" have slowed research towards useful atomic energy. He based his charges on an article by Conant which stated that research towards atomic energy for non-military purposes would be abandoned by the United States...
Treading Water. Despite the slowdown, there was no general sense of gloom. But with retail sales lagging 6% below the scare-buying period of 1951, there was a feeling of caution, except where big bargains were offered (see below). The trouble was, said the Commerce Department, that people were unaccountably saving money at a record peacetime rate of $20 billion a year, instead of spending it. Said a Chicago businessman:"People are scared to move out and do things. There is too much insecurity over Korea and the election in people's minds. Everybody is buttoning...