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...Allies last week the battle of supplies was still in the urgent stage. To the Germans one of the wonders of the Allied advance was that it could keep going with only one major port (Cherbourg) in partial operation. This week some of the miracle of Allied supplies was explained: the British and Americans had used prefabricated ports, towed across the Channel and set up under the noses of German guns...
...Worst damage in France is in the Cherbourg-Calais-Rouen area. Rouen Cathedral is in partial ruin...
...dimout proved only a flicker less black than the blackout. In a bit of nonsense that was also an exasperated travesty on Government rules, regulation and confusion, the Daily Express' "Beachcomber" (J. B. Morton) said what most Londoners thought. He wrote: "The Strabismus plan for a half-dim (partial) blackout is now completed and may soon come into operation. The idea is to black out partially half of every window but only with a mild form of blackout. In cases where the left half of the window is made partially dim, the right half must be wholly blacked...
...conspicuous lack of enthusiasm they write about a U.S. foreign policy based on "shadowy plans for a world order and for enforcing the four freedoms throughout the world." With half-concealed asperity they dismiss the notion that the New Deal represented a fundamental attack on poverty. They make a partial defense of Whipping Boy Herbert Hoover. Write the Beards: "President Hoover accepted no defeatist philosophy while this terrible depression harrowed the nation. . . . But Democratic tactics in the House of Representatives were principally confined to obstructing . . . such undertakings as he ventured to sponsor...
Riveter. Scottish-blond General McNair has been called by his good friend George C. Marshall "the brains of the Army." In 1918, McNair at 35 was one of the youngest general officers in the AEF. An artilleryman (which is said to account for his partial deafness), "Whitey" McNair was even then preaching closer coordination between all forces. When World War II drew near, it was McNair whom Marshall picked to weld the biggest, most highly specialized fighting team the U.S. ever...