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...more than two months ago, Franco's troops in Spanish Morocco were enough of a menace to alter Allied military plans in North Africa, definitely hamper preparations for the Tunisian campaign. Now military relations with Spain are much improved and Allied forces have been freed for battle with the Germans. This consideration, more than the less immediate threat of Nazi invasion of Spain, weighed heavily in determining and "justifying" U.S. policy toward Franco...
...Russia, the figures were not large. But considering the difficulty of transporting replacements and reinforcements to the sector, the loss was serious. It knocked out any hope that Eisenhower would soon be able to launch an offensive across central Tunisia. He had lost three airdromes, which will seriously hamper bomber and fighter operations and will give the Germans a valuable advantage. The only consolation for the Allied high command was that green U.S. troops, ruefully licking their wounds in the mountains, had learned some lessons. So, possibly, had the high command...
...village priest, operating in mountain areas, destroyed an 80-ft.-high steel railroad bridge on a route vital to German transport. Most of the guerrilla leaders were members of the Republican-Democratic Party, violently opposed to any restoration of the Greek monarchy. Though few, they were able to hamper German efforts to construct fortifications and air bases for the defense of Southern Europe...
Before the war all Indian papers were fairly free; there were restrictions, but the British seldom applied them. When war came, Indian editors and British leaders agreed: 1) the press would not hamper Britain's war effort; 2) the Government would permit the papers to go on demanding Indian independence; 3) as a control, the Government retained the right to close any obstreperous publication after giving the offending editor full warning, a second chance. Things worked well until last August, when the suppression of Gandhi's civil-disobedience campaign culminated in disorders...
...jets de Guerre. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened a "Useful Objects in Wartime" exhibit. Featured: baking pans made of paper, a cornhusk doormat, an open-top hamper-cart for the free wheeling of groceries, a plastic sink stopper, a felt eyeglass case...