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...each sector it was a battle for one hillock, one valley, then another and another. These separate battles made, in their whole, a struggle which may rank with Tours, Waterloo and the First Battle of the Marne among the conflicts that shape the world. The battle for Stalingrad will certainly stand among the great feats of arms; the very fact that the Germans' Marshal Fedor von Bock was able to keep 500,000 or more men in battle, so far from their main bases, at the fighting end of fantastically inadequate transport routes, placed him with the masters...
Then, at one minute to ten, the confusion subsided; all ears were cocked. The husky gong of Big Ben clanged. London's assorted traffic raced for the first time across the Thames's new Waterloo Bridge, and a nineteen-year-old political squabble ended...
Home Secretary Herbert Morrison and an agile-kneed schoolboy, Leonard Mitchell, were the winners. Leonard pedaled his bike furiously, through lanes of bridge workmen perched on railings, reached the Waterloo (South) end of the bridge ahead of the nearest chugging taxi. Exulted Leonard: "It will be something to remember...
Herbert Morrison, away from London on business, commented: "It was a historic struggle." Since 1924 he had fought for replacement of the old, sagging Waterloo Bridge-first within the London County Council, which owned it; then against London taxpayers, who feared they would have to pay for the new bridge; against the Times, which allowed: "London does not need and positively must be spared a new six-lane bridge"; against Stanley Baldwin's Government, which refused a building subsidy. Churchill's Government reversed that decision, will pay 60% of the building bill...
Fireworks at Waterloo. Rocket projectiles are at least as old as the early 19th Century. In 1804 Major General Sir William Congreve developed a rocket projectile with a range of nearly two miles. A British fleet fired salvos of Congreve's rockets at Boulogne in 1806, at Copenhagen in 1807 and at Danzig in 1813, causing great fires...