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Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army trod a route rich in U.S. battle memories 26 years after another historic offensive - through Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood, Soissons, Reims. His tanks were in Sedan on the 74th anniversary of Napoleon III's capture and surrender there. They were well into Belgium before many of his tankmen knew...
...Germans insisted for three days that another Patton wedge had penetrated to Reims, 30 miles northeast of Chateau-Thierry, where battles raged again in the wheat fields. Only 50 miles north of Reims was Sedan, at the Ardennes gateway through which the Germans had plunged into France...
...Ottawa's Chateau Laurier, 900 of them would pay $2.00 to eat gumbo creole and tenderloin steak, toast Mr. King in water (since the war, King has felt that liquor is out of place). Emil Ludwig, biographer of Bismarck, Napoleon and Franklin Roosevelt, would also publish a 62-page study of Mr. King's career. It described him as Mr. King hoped history would remember him-the great conciliator of Canada's contrary elements...
...Radio Saigon is the most puzzling station heard in Chungking. Its puppet personnel seem unable to decide what side they are on-especially since the Second Front in Normandy. The voice of one announcer, Jacques Chateau, "reminds you of an accordion . . . full of mashed potatoes." Another specialty is a comedy team called Jack and Jane, who "are forever knocking themselves out laughing at their own material...
Grim's conclusion: "Radio here is a link with home, but it's also an unwanted link with our enemy. . . . But you folks in the States don't have to worry about us. ... Orphan Annie from Tokyo, Jacques Chateau from Saigon, and Mrs. Henry Topping from Hsinking are just foolish voices crying in the wilderness...