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...Colonel Kernan's formula for victory is a return to the slashing tactics of Napoleon, Wellington, Marshal Foch (whose Conduct of War he has translated).* His battle slogan is the famed dispatch from Foch at the First Battle of the Marne: "My right is exposed, my left is heavily attacked, my center is unable to hold its position, I cannot redistribute my forces. The situation is excellent. I shall attack...
...weekend dispatch from Leningrad translated partisan successes during six months of hard war into hard facts: 10,480 Germans (including two generals) killed, 64 trains wrecked, five railway bridges dynamited, 71 planes destroyed, a "heavy toll" taken of German tanks and automobiles...
...Yangtze with the Chinese Army, had enough narrow escapes to earn many a thread of silver. His experiences of the past fortnight entitle him to a snow-white thatch for the rest of his life. For Yates McDaniel watched the collapse of Singapore at close hand, filed a dispatch that might well have been the last farewell of a crack reporter...
This brochure presented as facts and figures a roseate picture of extreme optimism about U.S. war production. The reaction of truth-hungry citizens to OFF's hearts-&-flowers was fierce. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch pictured OFF as "The Offices of Alibis and Excuses," whence issued "Rosy Reports...
...wholesale leather trade. Unless this volume of his reminiscences is hiding state secrets, the nearest he ever came to the world he wrote about was a short stretch of propaganda writing for one of the British special services during World War I. The peculiar Oppenheim blend of dispatch-box atmosphere, femmes fatales, double traitors, and a tight plot totting up to eventual victory for the British Intelligence-most of it came out of Oppenheim's head...