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Items from World War II, and particularly from the invasion of Europe, dominate the collection. The display of Ike's personal battle maps is set off by a very elaborate one which is electrically run and lights up to indicate troop positions and changing front lines. Of the many personal papers in the collection, one stands out: a hastily handwritten telegram to the Combined Chiefs of Staff. It says: "The mission of this Allied Force was fulfilled at 3 a.m., local time, May 7, 1945. Eisenhower...
...present-day passengers would believe it, the tortugas ran on a fast, split-second schedule; but that was the era of spit-and-polish British management, and it did not last long. The revolutions of 1914-18 came along, and rival generals commandeered the cars for use as troop transports, armored units or mobile-gun platforms. The equipment came out of the wars beat up and battle-scarred. By that time, buslines, paralleling the trolley routes, were cutting profits so drastically that the private owners of the trolley system could not afford to replace worn-out rolling stock. Worse...
...theatrical treat I ever . . . expect to have." He loved this play 1) because it showed the transitory nature of worldly greatness. 2) because it dramatized his yearning for divine bliss. Dodgson "almost held my breath to watch" when the deposed Queen Katharine of Aragon saw in a vision "a troop of angelic forms" hovering about her. "So could I fancy (if the thought be not profane), would real angels seem to our mortal vision." he wrote. And when the queen awoke and found the vision gone. Dodgson all but "shed tears" as she cried aloud...
...Teuton, and that's against The Yellow Horde. On the other hand, this is indeed shallow praise, since the most trivial of European powers can spot the Yellow Horde both nefarious cunning and staggering odds, and still win handily. If the European power happens to be a troop of English bow-men who took a wrong turn at Vienna on the way to a Crusade, the slaughter is appalling. Studios have teetered on the rim of bankruptcy hiring enough extras to present realistically the number of Orientals slain under these circumstances...
...NATO powers, including Germany], the aggressor will be subjected to the full weight of Anglo-American air power, using the atom, and in due course, the hydrogen bomb." The West should also inform Rus sia that West German forces are ready in two or three years . . . British and U.S. troop will be withdrawn "from the Continent, and the French forces back into France." Western troops would remain in Berlin "as a token force," but the protection of West Germany would be left to Germans "under the new guarantee...