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...what extent did German differences reflect disputes between the occupying powers? Last week, when the U.S. failed to make good all of its food import quota, the Russians refused to continue food supplies for all sectors of Berlin. On the third anniversary of Dday, a scorching editorial in the Berlin Soviet mouthpiece Tägliche Rundschau asserted that U.S. and British airmen had sought out German cities for destruction during the war, neglected military targets. General Lucius D. Clay, U.S. commander in Germany, quietly commented: "I would not dignify that kind of charge with a formal protest." Convinced that...
...John Watson Gibson, 61, famed engineer who tourniqueted the Blue Nile with the Sennar Dam, climaxed his career with the breakwaters for the two Mulberry Harbors-the artificial ports that made the Normandy invasion easier; of lung trouble; in London. The Mulberry Harbors were started across the Channel on Dday; by D-plus-100 they had received more than two million troops, 500,000 vehicles, 17 million tons of materiel and supplies...
...Torch convoys were already at sea when Montgomery threw his punch. Two British convoys proceeded through Gibraltar unscathed, and it was not until Nov. 7 (the day before North African Dday) that U-boats attacked. As for the U.S. convoy, it was first attacked by U-boats 48 hours after Dday. The richest, most obvious submarine target in history, much of it at sea for weeks, was totally missed by German Intelligence...
...days before Dday, Violetta Szabo made her fourth parachute jump. The Germans spotted her. She fought them off with a Sten gun, but was captured by the Gestapo, tortured, killed...
...Schumann is president of M.R.P. (Mouvement Républicain Populaire), the progressive party which attempts to translate into contemporary policy the principles of social justice enumerated by Pope Leo XIII. Before the war Schumann was a Paris journalist. From the time France fell until he landed in Normandy on Dday, Schumann was the nightly radio "spokesman of Free France." That gained him a reputation among French patriots second only to that of his chief, General Charles de Gaulle. Schumann's political popularity has grown while the General's has shrunk. One reason: Maurice Schumann is one of France...