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...when the vote came, and the U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty. With the vote the formal frontier of U.S. defense leaped across 4,000 miles. It now ran from the windswept tundras of Norway, across the low-lying plains of The Netherlands and Belgium, down the scarred Rhine valley to a dust-hot road barrier outside troubled Trieste...
...hiding behind a freshly grown beard, made his way to London and Algiers, where he joined De Gaulle's Free French. He took over Army "B" (later the French First Army), landed it in the south of France and took it up the Rhone valley to the Rhine and the Danube. The First became proudly known as the "Rhine & Danube" Army. He crossed the Rhone on D-day plus 15, when the crossing was actually planned for sometime between D plus 30 and D plus 60. His sappers and bridging equipment had not arrived, but he commandeered every boat...
...years before, Franklin Roosevelt had kicked up a national uproar when he was quoted as placing the U.S. frontier on the Rhine. But this time Bradley made his point from the lesson of recent history. The invasion of Normandy, Bradley reminded his listeners, had cost 21,000 U.S. casualties in the first ten days. The North Atlantic Treaty was the surest way to save the U.S. from making another such bloody invasion. Said Bradley: "I don't believe any nation would attack such a combination of friendly countries...
American aid to such a government would be incredibly short-sighted. It would alienate France, which feels strongly that it would rather fight on the Rhine, not the Pyrenees. It would intrench a Fascist government just when we are trying so hard to encourage democracy in western Europe. It would give Russia a fine propaganda point; one which the Communists have already used effectively. The refusal of U.S. help may make things temporarily more tough for the Spanish people, but ERP or ECA or recognition or alliance will serve very nicely to indeterminately prolong their suffering...
Here, four years ago, the 9th Armored Division of the U.S. First Army crossed the Rhine. The U.S. Army left few marks on Remagen. It left the name "Texas Roy," splashed in green paint across a wall by the Rhine, and a tiny "USA" scratched into the cement of an apartment building. It left the bodies of several American soldiers, which were recovered from beneath the collapsed Ludendorff bridge a few weeks ago. I could not find anything else the U.S. had left behind. Certainly it did not leave democracy...