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General Mark Clark, whose polyglot Fifteenth Army Group won the victory, announced: "The military power of Germany in Italy has . . . ceased, even though scattered fighting may continue. . . ." The glory was shared by Britons, Americans, New Zealanders, South Africans, British Indians, Poles, Jews, Brazilians and Italians. Joyously Prime Minister Winston Churchill cabled Field Marshal Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander, Allied Mediterranean commander: "Never, I suppose, have so many nations advanced and maneuvered in one line victoriously...
...polyglot mass of Russians, Frenchmen, Poles, Belgians, Netherlander, Italians, Serbs, Bulgars, Greeks threatened to clog and millstone the victors in broken Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS). They were going home or escaping war or just falling in with the vague, aimless movement of the mass...
Gibson said he had found cases of panic in other units of the polyglot Allied outfits on the Italian front, but these were mostly individual cases. With the 92nd, he admitted, "the disintegration was likely to be the behavior pattern of ... patrols or platoons...
...Three-the U.S., Britain, Russia-dominated the polyglot gathering. The Soviet Union (in numbers at least) dominated the Big Three. Russia had sent a team of 36 delegates, plus nine "advisers and interpreters," to London...
Allied and Italian officials breathed more freely last week. But with plenty more deserters from the Allies' polyglot armies in Italy running around loose, they were not looking forward to a peaceful winter. Goggle-eyed Romans, reading the story of the Lane gang, wondered how much their homegrown desperadoes were learning from the American visitors...