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Help from the West. U.S. aid to China in the postliberation period might prove more valuable than in war. U.S. air forces hauled Chinese troops to key points, establishing the Central Government's control. U.S. occupation troops might help garrison Shanghai, Peiping and Tientsin until Chinese troops arrived in force...
Accordingly, the conspirators determined to overthrow Hitler and expose his reckless gambling to the German people. "The leaders . . . were myself, General Erwin von Witzleben, commander of the Berlin garrison; Colonel General Ludwig Beck, my predecessor; Count von Helldorf, police president of Berlin; General von Brockdorf, head of the Potsdam garrison, and General Edwin von Stülpnagel. The commander in chief, von Brauchitsch, had been informed of the conspiracy...
...Flute. In Potsdam's rococo rooms the great Emperor Frederick had played his flute (not badly); in its disciplined gardens he had schemed to confuse and divide his enemies. Since then, Potsdam had symbolized much that was Germany. When old Paul von Hindenburg stood in Potsdam's Garrison Church on March 21, 1933, and handed his country over to the Nazis, he bade them rule in the spirit of Potsdam. Now the Garrison Church was ein Trümmerhaufen - a rubble heap...
Wishbone-shaped Wake, scene of one of the Marines' heroic stands in the war's early weeks, had another last-ditch garrison aboard. But no one went to rout them out. They were dying on the vine, as dozens of other bypassed garrisons in the Pacific were dying...
...Alfred M. Landon, William Agar (former Vice President of Freedom House), George Creel, John Dewey, Varian Fry (editor of Common Sense), Publisher Martin J. Quigley, A. Phillip Randolph (President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters), Oswald Garrison Villard, Justice Francis E. Rivers, ex-Justice Jeremiah T. Mahoney, Elliott V. Bell (New York State Superintendent of Banks), Publisher Frederick S. Crofts, Raymond Leslie Buell (former chairman of the Foreign Policy Association...