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...election-year of 1935 Frank lin Roosevelt's popularity stood at a low ebb) compared to his winning plurality in 1936. The same was true, only more so, in midsummer 1939. In both 1935 and 1939 this did not disturb Mr. Roosevelt : he has always maintained, with simple practicality, that the time to be popular is on Election Day. His political henchmen, such as Harry Hopkins, even planned it that...
...eastern horizon. . . . The searchlight beams moved and crossed and then abruptly, on some unseen order, vanished instantaneously, leaving an even deeper darkness. . . . Bright, large sparks occurred among the stars and vanished; they were bursting shells. . . ." When the Blitz was over, the village was spent, spiritually at its lowest ebb...
...such a change Lieut. General Jacob L. Devers, Chief of the U.S. Armored Force, like any other sound soldier, sees no reflection on his tanks, only the result of the ebb & flow of battle doctrine. Said he: "While capable of smashing through the severest obstacle, [the armored division's] most important use is against vital enemy rear areas . . . air, armor, artillery and infantry must be properly combined and their individual capabilities exploited. ... The tank, like the battleship and the airplane, is merely a means of carrying fire power to the enemy...
...escort ships, new aircraft carriers (see p. 65), new defensive techniques, new arms and devices, a new command system were among the Allied answers. But even the most optimistic Allied claims did not predict a turn of the tide before midsummer; other estimates were that the ebb would be later than that...
...feet thick when another 18-pounder put an end to the gun and thawed to nothing the ill-disciplined army it had held together. But by that time the brutal nobility of a machine had made its dent in history: "The fall of Almeida was the beginning of that ebb tide which was to continue until the Allies should reach Paris. And Almeida fell because of the success of the revolt of the North. And it was the gun which was the cause of that success...