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Like the others, Omaha Beachhead is the bleak, official diary of a single, limited period of battle, written for the men who fought there, compiled from U.S. and enemy action reports and interviews. In language as unemotional as a tank tread, it catalogues the step-by-step, hedge-by-hedge progress of units, from company-size up. It begins at H-hour, chronicles the fighting until the First Army turned and drove for Cherbourg...
...Deeds. Precisely opposite conclusions can be drawn from what the Gaullist Government has actually done to date. Examples: a harsh, clearly authoritarian press law would certainly deprive France, at least for an interim, of anything like a free press; a sane, clearly democratic .election law would provide step-by-step elections, from towns to provinces to all France, as Allied troops liberate the departements...
...problem Baruch and Hancock are now training their artillery. They hope to work out a plan to let the contractor shunt the equipment out immediately after his contracts are canceled. He may store it at his own risk. Other such knotty problems will be taken up in the same step-by-step fashion. The step that had been taken to unwind the U.S. war machine was a small step-but the important fact was that it had been taken...
...been a step-by-step assault. But Ike and his staff had ready all the plots and plans and reports and records, they had assembled men and matériel and were ready to uncork the next secrets of A.F.H.Q. It would not be long...
...milestone in post-war thinking chiefly because it got down to concrete cases. The great debate on the post-war world had begun only last May, with Vice President Henry Wallace's speech on the "century of the common man." Since then statesmen of both parties had moved step-by-step, speech-by-speech, toward what looked increasingly like a common objective. Still to be heard from was Franklin Roosevelt, carefully staying out of the debate himself, biding his time and avoiding commitments...