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...Pearl Harbor should have been surprised. "They got the same warnings we did in Manila. That war was maybe days, perhaps even only hours, away." Lieut. Robert Boiling Kelly knew enough to "put aboard the thickest charcoal-broiled filet mignon" Manila could supply, so as to be ready for the attack...
...economic. "In view of this, it is perhaps even more symptomatic of how far the social mutation inside Germany has gone that middle-class people are ceasing to behave according to their old stand ards." When Smith left Germany the atmosphere was one of decay "and that atmosphere seems thickest among the Kleinbürgertum [petite bourgeoisie]." They were drinking simply "to get soused completely and unmitigatedly [and] sexual license of people once proud of their respectability has virtually run the prostitutes out of business...
...supply problem alone is prodigious. Yet General Somervell went to London expressly to tell the British that it could be solved. The problem of picking the attack area is staggering. On the Channel coast, the Germans will be thickest but the supply lines shortest. On the Norwegian coast the landing would be easier, the supply problem (across more than 400 miles of sea) far more difficult. The problem of coordinating Empire and U.S. troops, of hooking two armies, two navies and two air forces (with further subdivisions) into a single, smoothly functioning tactical weapon was one to chill the heart...
Along the main northern roads in the ebb tide of British Empire our progress was blocked by a leaderless, directionless stream of helpless, pleading, praying, begging, cursing refugees seeking food and comfort and aid to reach India. At other times, at the orders of Stilwell, we plunged into the thickest jungles, striking across unknown trails where the only sounds were the screaming of hordes of unseen monkeys and the slitherings of the brightest green poisonous snakes. Alternately scorched by terrific heat under which several of our party faint ed, and drenched by tropical rains, our ranks were affected by dysentery...
That Saturday night, as the nation's juke boxes ground out The Last Time I Saw Paris, as millions of Americans danced, drank, played bridge, collided in automobiles, sloshed through the East's thickest blizzard in six years or gave thanks that California's record rain had stopped; as the millions who have as yet felt no impact of the war prayed or played; as on any other Saturday night, with the children bathed and in bed and the old folks nodding by the radio, the U. S. went about its usual concerns, while the Senate took...