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...hours last week units of General Patton's Third Army swept over the Marne near Paris, zipped through to Verdun and a minor battle. Within another 48 hours they were in Alsace, at Metz; then they were reported stabbing into the Reich's rich industrial Saar Basin...
...Mans (TIME, Aug. 21). Pivoting on Troyes, his columns had fanned out. One thrust had stabbed toward Alsace and the German Rhineland border, 130 miles to the east. Another had cut northeast and headed for Metz, in mid-Lorraine, next-door neighbor to Luxembourg and the Reich's Saar Valley...
...basic experience in common with his Army which will give him, along with them, determination to do his job as well as possible: He started the Battle of France at the Saar Valley and ended it in the water of Dunkirk...
...Noel in his name is for his birthday -Christmas, 1891. He was born in India, educated at Charterhouse and Sandhurst, fought and was wounded in World War I, fought in World War II from the Saar to Dunkirk. He has a Scot's reticence which even his wife cannot penetrate...
...accordance--with this 1933 principle, Germany would lose all the territorial acquisitions made by Hitler except the Saar. Alsace-Lorraine would go back to France; Eupen and Malmedy to Belgium; the Corridor and the other annexed Polish territories of Poland. Austria would be separate and independent until a pledbiscite or an agreement should decide whether it should be reunited with Germany, remain independent, or find a new existence in some kind of a Danubian federation or new arrangement. The Sudeten Germans would remain with the Czechs within the natural mountain frontier of Czechoslovakia as in 1933, except such Sudeten Germans...