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CZECHOSLOVAKIA, 1938. General Legion: Tell Hitler to get out of there or else the free world is coming across the Rhine. Captain Truman: Send troops to Czechoslovakia, presumably by parachute, but do not widen the war by crossing the Rhine. Captain Truman's policy might have avoided World War II-in the sense that the Axis would have won the world without having to fight...
...Today it is idle to talk of being able to hold the line of the Elbe or the line of the Rhine," he told a group of University of Virginia students.* "Why should we waste valuable resources in making such an attempt? . . . We have never wanted a part of other people's scrapes . . . We can do well to mind our own business and interfere only where somebody threatens our business and our homes...
...every British war since the time of its founding. In World War II its six battalions took part in "nearly every principal campaign" the world over -the roster of its fighting stations reads like a wartime atlas: Flanders, Somaliland, Greece, Crete, Tobruk, Alamein, Tripoli, Burma, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, the Rhine. When peace came, Field Marshal Earl Wavell (himself a Black Watch officer) gave to his former Aide-de-Camp Bernard (Beyond the Chindwin) Fergusson the job of historian to the six battalions and their Commonwealth affiliates-a "family" of widespread proportions...
France has been the most determined opponent of a revival of German military power. Two invasions from the cast have been enough for any Frenchman, and the neighbor across the Rhine is still Germany, not Russia. But the French position has been modified since Korea, and France now professes herself willing to see Germans back in uniform...
...something for a change, instead of just talking about it. Better a Watch on the Rhine than holocaust on the Hudson, or a massacre on the Missouri...