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...drawing up their plans, the Germans had first to compute the odds. In Yugoslavia they saw facing them some 16 fairly well trained infantry divisions, three moun tain divisions, two cavalry divisions, 16 frontier battalions, plus a few thousand relatively green reservists; an Air Force of perhaps 900 planes, but without reserve strength; an aggressive leader in the per son of General Dusan Simovitch, who had built the best air force in the Balkans virtually singlehanded - altogether a potentially formidable but completely un tried force of about 650,000 men. They counted a Greek force of at most 15 divisions...
...again, Mr. Hull made two points, both again demonstrating the world range of U.S. interests: 1) the Russian-Yugoslav friendship pact was encouraging (this little bouquet was the second handed the Soviet Union by the State Department in three weeks); 2) a statement by Marshal Henri Pétain, chief of France-that France's honor required that she take no action against a former ally-was important. The two diplomatic words, "encouraging" and "important," meant vastly more than they seemed to mean. Apparently U.S. diplomatic cultivation of Moscow and Vichy also was at last bearing buds...
...Tain't for me to tell off the likes of you, TIME. But you best retire that guy. Award him tops for dramatic writing, for creating literary perfection out of the hideous anomaly that is mechanized warfare; give him double pay for the rest of his days. And no more word pictures from his nimble pen, hear...
...where there are no Germans, there is less hatred of them. In Unoccupied France some hatred of Great Britain remains, both for France's defeat and for the blockade that has brought hunger and suffering. The people of Unoccupied France have put their faith in Marshal Pétain, who seems to stand for a France on French soil, even if it is an impotent France...
...citizens have a traditional love for France, more sentimental than rational. It is based largely on Lafayette and legend. When the French Government of Marshal Pétain asked for an armistice most of these U. S. citizens felt that their sentimental faith had been misplaced. They reacted much as did Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay in a sonnet entitled The Old Men of Vichy, which ended...