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General Dwight D. Eisenhower set himself a time limit as he left Italy to command the cross-Channel invasion. Said he, flatly: "We will win the European...
...cross-Channel invasion will take only "a few months" to destroy Germany, forecast Vice President Wallace. This bit of punditry came 48 hours after President Roosevelt told the nation that "a quick end to the war [is] false reasoning...
Earlier reports that General Marshall would be assigned that supreme field command were not baseless (TIME, Sept. 27 et seq.). The U.S. Chief of Staff has long been the leading advocate of a cross-Channel invasion; he has long wanted to serve in the field as a tactician; and before the Teheran meeting, Washington and London were convinced that his appointment was all set. President Roosevelt had seriously considered able General Marshall for the invasion job. But he had excellent reasons for finally agreeing to keep the Chief of Staff at his vital post in Washington...
Last week the Nazis, via Stockholm, threatened England with a whole barrage of cross-Channel rockets. Asked the British Institute of Public Opinion: Do you think the Nazis are bluffing or telling the truth about their secret weapon? Of those questioned, 59% answered: Bluffing. The British military kept their opinion to themselves...
With the mass assault cross-channel thus coming on, the time is obviously near when the Allies must agree on how they shall deal with a defeated Germany. An Allied Council to govern Germany during the periods between military collapse and final peace terms, was reportedly agreed on in principle at Moscow. The complex details of its policy remain to be worked out. If the Big Three could agree on the broader terms of the peace, they could make great political moves. Item: they might issue a joint ultimatum to the German people, stating for the first time the detailed...