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...cleaning out of the Germans from the west bank of the Rhine in the battles of February and March 1945 (before the river was bridged) that Eisenhower regards as the third decisive phase The Germans again stood their ground too long; "... the war was won before the Rhine was crossed." In this phase, General Omar Bradley's tactical operations were "the equal in brilliance of any that American forces ever have conducted...
Eisenhower's report was written long before his critics-notably Lieut. Colonel Ralph (Top Secret) Ingersoll-began to attack him as a cautious, "political" general. But by inference, he dismisses attacks on his caution, declaring simply that to continue General Patton's armored blitzkrieg across the Rhine before Christmas was impossible. Not only had he outrun his supplies, but there were too many Germans in too good positions on the west bank...
...Tokyo last week the Zenshinza company, which last winter presented John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (TIME, Feb. 25), was game for a braver try: Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine...
This week, as it would be for months to come, the mind of the world was on wheat -bread for the hungry, from the Rhine to the Yangtze. But in the great U.S. food factory, corn-and-hog farmers did not change over their fields to wheat production, nor did cattlemen plow up their rich pastures. Each in his individualistic way was tooled for his specialty and subject only to the weather and the vagaries of a controlled economy. Each knew that if he did his part, and if the other farmers of the world could once again do theirs...
Breakfast-Table Briefing. Behind enemy lines on Guadalcanal, McGovern screamed Buddhist curses in Japanese, captured a few Jap prisoners to question. He crossed the Rhine with Patton's men, and later worked on the Potsdam declaration. But his biggest war job was in Washington. He had to get up at 5:30 a.m., to bang out a daily top-secret newspaper on enemy capabilities and intentions-required breakfast reading for President Roosevelt and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...