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...Cominform to pace his tour with riots. Everywhere the Cominform failed. In a last stab at Ike, the Communists called for a monster rally in front of his Paris quarters in the Hotel Astoria. Fewer than 5,000 Communists turned up; half of them were arrested. In Metz, Toulouse, Rennes, Dijon and Lyon, the Reds planned demonstrations that did not come off. Red crowds in Marseille, Lille and Valenciennes tried to riot, were quickly broken up by the police...
Married. Blanche Thebom, 33, mezzo-soprano who made the grade from a Baptist choir loft in Canton, Ohio to the Metropolitan Opera House; and Richard E. Metz, 38, Manhattan banker; he for the second time; in Manhattan...
...time gas arrived, the enemy had collected himself somewhat. Without much trouble Walker crossed the Moselle north and south of Metz, but units of the XX Corps had to fight in the forbidding network of forts around Metz for two more months...
Said General Patton in his memoirs: "I directed General Walker to stop fooling around . . . and go in and take it." Walker did. It was the first time in the era of gunpowder that Metz had been taken by storm...
...Walker actually got to France ahead of the XX Corps as temporary replacement for Major General Charles Corlett, the XIX Corps (First Army) commander, who was ill. † Attila the Hun took Metz in 451 A.D. In the Franco-German war of 1870, the French surrendered it rather than starve. The Germans held it at the beginning of World War I and took it without a fight in World...