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...Three Conferees dispersed under cover of an all but newsless fog of military security. But here & there was vouchsafed a glimpse-such as Franklin Roosevelt's afterdeck chats with Near Eastern potentates (see INTERNATIONAL); here & there a sound, like the short snort from Socialism's old warhorse, George Bernard Shaw. Snorted Shaw: "[The Yalta Conference is] an impudently incredible fairy tale. . . . Will Stalin declare war on Japan as the price of surrender of the other two over Lublin? Not a word about it. Fairy tales, fairy tales, fairy tales, I for one should, like to know what really...
...unhurt after so many days when I woke up in the morning wondering if I would be dead before night." But as soon as he heard of the attack he headed back toward the battles. He was with General Vandenberg all through the terrible days when the pea-soup fog kept our tactical air force grounded, finally got back to the front with General Patton's men east of Bastogne...
Next of course came the one long, bleak and wearisome week of finals to be followed by the present week of worries, the worst phases of the war on the River front yet to be encountered. Heavy fog prevailed over Baker in many quarters for most of the period and continued overcast is now freely predicted until the spell is broken by the official reports due in a week...
...other convoys will be different. Ours was the first. The sun was burning through the morning fog at Myitkyina [pronounced Myit-chi-nah] when we set out, 100-odd vehicles in line. The American drivers, white and colored alike, the Chinese engineers, were especially selected from units that had slaved to build the road...
When the thaw came, fog settled. On most days Cub artillery spotters could get off the ground, and some days heavy bombers were able to attack rear bases and communications by using their "mickeys" (radar bombsights). But for ten straight days, Allied tactical air support was pinned to the ground, except for a few ineffective sorties...