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...hundred million countrymen: The enemy now stands at our front gate. It is indeed the gravest moment in the history of our nation. . . . We must either win . . . or we shall all die. . . . The time is here for the . . . people of Japan to man their posts . . . and make secure the divine country of his Imperial Majesty, the Emperor...
...November) of 34,929 tons, and was told that trickle would be upped sharply with the road's completion, expected soon. In Chungking and elsewhere he talked with U.S. generals, Chinese leaders. The more he saw and heard, the more Mike Mansfield was convinced that China's gravest problem was the rift between the Kuomintang and China's Communists, who govern 90,000,000 Chinese.* Said...
Rundstedt's all-out gamble involved the U.S. forces in their gravest and costliest battle of World War II. That savage outpouring of German strength showed clearly enough that the Man of 1944 was not to be found among the idealistic dreamers and crafty politicians who wanted to perform a Caesarean operation on a world at war, to bring the postwar world to birth ahead of its time. Not in three years of war had there been so much mutual recrimination among Russia, Britain and the U.S., nor such alarming cracks in their solidarity. In these cracks lurked...
Last week the eyes of the U.S. turned with fear and questioning on Eisenhower as he faced the gravest setback of his career. The invasion was his first great responsibility; this his second. But Eisenhower refused to admit that a battle was lost while it was still being fought. He proclaimed to his troops...
There was little immediate hope to offer. In Chungking Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer, the new U.S. military chief, hurried his defense plans in daily conferences with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. On one of China's gravest days in her seven years of war, General Wedemeyer was able to promise only a reasonable expectation-that the tide would be turned eventually by measures now in the making...