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...more than an episode in the tense tactical drama on the western front. The battle that raged in mounting fury northeast of the German border city was far more significant. This week there were ample signs that here the Allies hoped they might achieve their breakthrough to the Rhine...
...believe that there are fundamental differences between the war aims of the Allies and the Russians, that the Soviet Union is out to get what it can from a mariage de convenance with Britain and the U.S.: at the least, the Balkans-at the most, Europe east of the Rhine...
Roared the Republicans: "CLEAR EVERYTHING WITH SIDNEY!" What about the shipments of steel and oil to Japan under Roosevelt? To avoid unemployment, a WPA on the Rhine...
...fatherland, the Germans fought in fierce gusts of frenzy, and with high military skill. The U.S. First Army held the spotlight on this front, as it widened and deepened its salient north of Aachen. The aim was for a breakthrough that would sweep the Germans back to the Rhine-but the pace was grinding and generally slow. For the time, at least, it was a painful battle of attrition. At several points west of the Rhine, the German counterattacks forced the Allies to back up, to grope for new footing for the next plunge ahead. The U.S. Seventh Army slugged...
...battle to smash through the Siegfried Line to the Rhine had begun. This week General "Ike" Eisenhower's top heavyweight-the biggest and most powerful of his armies in Europe-still slugged forward in the heaviest part of the job. Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' U.S. First Army pounded unremittingly at the crouching enemy, in a tremendous burst of infighting against the Germans' main forces in the West Wall, trying for a knockout before winter...