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...years (1924-40) Léger presided behind the scenes of France's Foreign Office. He was known as "the Vansittart of the Quai d'Orsay," "Europe's greatest living diplomat." Said one awed foreign observer: "Präsidenten gehen, Aussenminister gehen, aber Alexis Leger bleibt immer da" ("Presidents go, foreign ministers go, but Alexis Leger always remains...
...frantic call went out to the U.S. Army to send 1,000 soldiers from Fort Dix to help unload. Meanwhile, half a million bushels of tomatoes were in dan ger of rotting on truck, freight car and vine. A volunteer crew of more than 2,000 citizens and servicemen worked over the weekend, saved the waiting truckloads...
...February 1942 when Brigadier General Ira Clarence Eaker stepped from a transatlantic Clipper onto British soil. Eaker had with him a handful of aides, a paper commission and a plan. The plan foresaw the day when the Eighth, with Britain's R.A.F., would be able to overwhelm Ger man defenses and hollow out the German war effort from within...
...Plain of Catania, the Germans had every advantage. Their heavy artillery, anti-tank guns and machine guns bore downward at the British attackers. Northwestward, where the Canadians and Americans were advancing to aid the British and encompass Etna, every hill and defile could become a similar fortress when the Ger mans chose to make...
Winston Churchill announced that in May the Allies, for the first time, destroyed more submarines than the Ger mans build in a month. Exactly this had long been the goal of the anti-submarine campaign, but early this year the men in charge of the campaign did not expect to attain such a rate of destruction before 1944. If, as is generally supposed, the Germans have been building around 25 U-boats a month, the Allied bag may well have averaged one U-boat a day. Unofficial reports that the Germans lost 30 submarines were probably close to the mark...