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George Could Have Done It. Allen's charges against SHAEF and British Field Marshal Montgomery are heated and serious, but military men and plain readers alike will be apt to notice a lack of documentation for Author Allen's conclusions. Says Allen of the Falaise gap: "The trap was set. All that remained was to spring it. ... There was nothing...
...What the Germans could not do, SHAEF did. Third Army was sat down. Patton was ordered not to seize Falaise. . . . The real reason was Montgomery's insistence that he close the gap. He demanded-and got his way-that Patton be halted from springing the trap he had forged. . . . During that time, the bulk of the trapped German armor escaped, to fight again and kill United States and British troops on other battlefields...
...Senator's voice broke and he seemed close to tears as he said: "They were seeking to lay a trap for me." Brewster recovered his control and closed on a stentorian note: "Let the chips fall where they may. I cannot and will not yield to a campaign of this character...
...missed the great, fog-shrouded tanks. A little way beyond, it hit the soft chimney a few feet from the top, disintegrated, threw one body between the chimney's two walls and hurled the others into the pilot flame at the bottom of the pit. Workmen reached through trap doors with steel hooks to draw the bodies of Nelson Pell and his passengers from the fire...
...Watch out for the fellow who tells you that you, individually, are free to give U.S. Steel a run for their money. This is a trap. Do not try to manufacture steel...