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Once, as the President started from Blair House at 8:30 a.m., followed by Secret Service men and reporters, a tiny old lady stepped from a knot of onlookers, said: "I just wanted to shake hands." The President shook hands. And once, when traffic halted to let the President pass, a cab driver yelled: "Good luck, Harry!" Harry Truman grinned and waved...
...Germans seemed ready to write off Cologne. They blew up the one remaining bridge, marooning the city and its small knot of defenders on the Rhine's west bank...
...American tanks from the west clanked into Mongyu at 11:30. The first American, Brigadier General George W. Sliney, hiked in on foot with a platoon of Chinese troops from the Burma side. The cocky little foot soldiers who had mopped up the north Burma jungle saw a knot of blue-grey, raggle-taggle men at the junction and wanted to fire on them. Sliney threw himself in front of the Bren gun. They were Chinese from the other side of the block and they cheered and yelled as the American walked...
Hours go by while the officers He tense in the sun. Once a knot of ten or twelve grey-blue figures bursts out of the thickets just above a Japanese pillbox and goes tumbling down atop it with bayonets ready to clear it. The men seem hurried, fast, awkward. About 3 o'clock we make out a long file of Chinese infantrymen crawling along through the undergrowth, still invisible to the enemy, 300 yards above them. Then they, too, disappear...
Seville Cathedral, second largest in the world,* was ready. So was Cardinal Segura, who would tie the knot. But the climax would not come until Dom Duarte, Duke of Bragança, brother-in-law of the bridegroom, could arrive from Switzerland. Wartime traveling is so uncertain...