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...beyond. He messaged: "British soldiers, it will long be told how, with our Canadian brothers and valiant United States allies, this superb task was accomplished. Once the river line is pierced and the crust of German resistance is broken, the decisive victory in Europe will be near. May God prosper our arms in this noble adventure after our long struggle for King and country, for dear life, and for the freedom of mankind...
...Franz Oppenhof, of Aachen, was a director of the local armament works, Veltrup, which manufactured parts for German guns and V-2 rockets. He knew everyone, he was respected, and the Nazis had allowed him to prosper without joining the Party. So the U.S. Military Government installed him as Aachen's occupation Bürgermeister. Fifty-seven of the first 300 city functionaries chosen by him had been Nazi Party members. U.S. officers, weeding out 27 of them, had to agree with Herr Oppenhof that it was almost impossible to run the town efficiently without experienced Nazis...
...adopted at 13, settled down to write short stories and historical novels (Dr. Heidenhoff's Process, The Duke of Stockbridge). William Dean Howells hailed him as a new Hawthorne. Bellamy also put his savings ($1,200) into a new paper, the Springfield Penny News, and made it prosper before he sold it to his brother...
...gradually win full Dominion status. Further glimpses of air-minded Canada, industrially ambitious Australia, contentedly agrarian New Zealand, rich, up-&-coming South Africa, lead M.O.T. to conclude that old loyalties will be maintained (along with new ones to the U.S.), old grievances will be resolved, the British Empire will prosper and endure...
...Commonwealth. But the Prime Minister has a ticklish question to answer: Does his policy square with the tide of Commonwealth opinion running strongly in Britain and the other Dominions? Balance for Britain? In Britain, no less than in Canada, there is a strong belief that the Commonwealth & Empire can prosper best in a worldwide economic and political system. But Britons, tried and worn by war, share Jan Smuts's strongly expressed concern for their home island, confronting a world in which Russia and the U.S. will be both powerful and power-conscious. And they look to the Dominions, joined...