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...Battle of the Philippine Sea had been told and there was no doubt about its result: in three days of swirling attack and blasting defense the U.S. Navy had won a great victory. But among pundits in & outside the Navy, there was nevertheless a question still to argue. Its nub: had Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., commander of the mighty Third U.S. Fleet, taken a long chance and endangered the safety of the Leyte beachhead...
...Churchill did not even brush the nub of the problem: joint U.S.-British economic pressure. Britain needs Argentine beef, which she does not believe the U.S. could replace. She wants to keep her Argentine investments, the most important foreign holdings she has left. Valuing Argentina as a trade partner, Britain is not eager to see her dragged into, the U.S. orbit. If Britain imposes economic sanctions on Argentina at U.S. request, it will be with growling reluctance. Said the Economist: "Gain must be counted against loss. And in this case there would be enormous loss for a very questionable gain...
...nub of the problem was to take Cherbourg, and to take it fast. To this task a U.S. army under Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley was assigned. It was known in advance that the Americans' job would be tough: the Nazis had flooded 500,000 acres around Carentan to depths up to seven feet. Four days after landing, the Americans captured some of the sluice gates at Trevieres, started to drain the drowned land. But there was no assurance that the land would dry out enough to permit maneuver by heavy armor...
London's bright Economist put the nub of British alarm, if not its central point: "If the Americans adopt a policy of intervention after the war, its value . . . will depend on its manners and methods. . . . If their intervention is to be unilateral, spasmodic and uninformed, the final result will be worse than straight isolationism...
...Nub. Knowing readers spotted a clue to the attack in Izvestia's inclusion of Poland among the countries supposedly dissatisfied with Vatican policy. The Russians' clear meaning was: while we are arranging a "suitable" postwar Government for Poland, will Catholics who share our distrust of clericalism please urge the Vatican not to use its enormous influence with Polish Catholics against...