[Homer_J_Simpson]

At this time I received some pregnant messages from Smuts, now back at the Cape. He had always agreed wholeheartedly with my views on “Dragoon”, “but,” he now wrote (August 30) “please do not let strategy absorb all your attention to the damage of the greater issue now looming up.

From now on it would be wise to keep a very close eye on all matters bearing on the future settlement of Europe. This is the crucial issue on which the future of the world for generations will depend. In its solution your vision, experience, and great influence may prove a main factor.” *

* My italics.-W.S.C.

Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy

[Homer_J_Simpson]

U.S. Tanks Race On (Middleton) – 2-3
De Gaulle Pledges Revived Republic – 3-4
Americans Shut Rhone Trap; French Drive toward Spain – 4
Destruction of German Armies in France Proceeds Apace (map) – 5
Patton’s Rushing Men Give Salute at Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood – 6
British Troops Push on Robot-Bomb Area – 6
Canadians Speed over Seine Spans (MacDonald) – 7
English Coast Shaken by Blast, Heaviest of War, from France – 7
Churchill Home from Italian Trip (Anderson) – 7
History Repeats: The Headlines of Yesteryear Tell the Story of Today (reproductions) – 8
Rumania Engulfed – 9-10
Sofia Says Troops are Withdrawing – 10
Polish Home Army Wins ‘Combat’ Status as U.S., Britain Warn Nazis on Reprisals – 10
Nazi Mass Killing Laid Bare in Camp (Lawrence) – 11-12
Peak U.S. Air Blow Rips Amboina Base – 12
French Reconstruction (Baldwin) – 13
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 14-16
War News Summarized – 16
Lovett Predicts Scrapping of Planes; Stresses Need to Keep Air Force Strong – 16

[Seizethecarp]

Smuts to Churchill:

“From now on it would be wise to keep a very close eye on all matters bearing on the future settlement of Europe. This is the crucial issue on which the future of the world for generations will depend. In its solution your vision, experience, and great influence may prove a main factor.”

Obama:

“We don’t have a strategy...”