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...advanced forces. The enemy did insane things in his panicky attempts to escape. He tried, with small forces, to spear through long columns. He savagely bombed Verdun after it had been taken, as if in blind spite for two historic defeats. At Mons he fought viciously to break out eastward to the Reich. But other Americans were already two days ahead on his escape route. In the Compiegne forest (where two armistices were signed) Germans hopelessly held out, were passed...
Eisenhower had seen the larger opportunity: to destroy the entire enemy force in western France. He allowed the pocket to remain unclosed, sent more American tanks looping eastward, then northward again. The enemy was being squeezed into retreat; his reinforcements were meeting his routed troops. In confused retreat the enemy could be cut to pieces in the larger trap, as Lee's armies had been lacerated in their successive retreats to Petersburg, Richmond, finally Appomattox...
Since three brave young pioneers ventured 12,000 miles from home to enroll at Monson (Mass.) Academy in 1847, some 10,000 Chinese students have journeyed eastward to acquire a U.S. education. The pilgrimage has been interrupted by war, but 1,700 war-stranded students remain in the U.S. Primarily as a meeting place for them, their postwar successors, and their U.S. friends present & to come, a four-story, red brick mansion on Manhattan's East 65th Street was dedicated last week as China House. Gift of the Henry Luce Foundation to the China Institute of America...
...separate swing, pointed boldly eastward, that could be developed into a concentrated drive on Paris...
...Eastward. But the thrust into France was the big battle for which Omar Bradley's Brittany campaign was the preparation. The world would soon see how the Allied ground commander in France, General Sir Bernard Montgomery, would fit the campaign into his strategic pattern...