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I learned to use two pairs of chopsticks in one hand, imitating my friend. I later told the Korea story to a friend in Boston, who proceded to put four chopsticks in one hand and use them as two pairs-picking up two different pieces of food at once, one with each pair. After a couple of minutes of practice and adjustment, I managed to pick up a piece of food using three sticks converging on it from three different directions, and put it in my mouth. His deputy, William Slim, has nicely put down the pro-Japanese revolts led by Subhas Bose; a pity that Mahatma fellow died as well, but if he was going to go walking around in a riot waving his stick, it was his look-out. He returns home in early November to prepare for Tehran; vowing to help swing the people away from the Republican press that has led them so astray. The airborne side of the operation, the landings in late June 4 and early June 5, worked perfectly well until the paratroopers actually touched ground, and were confronted with the three panzer divisions that Intelligence had dismissed as an error. Very preliminary plans for the post-war world are drawn up; the Soviet Union will occupy Austria, along with eastern and central Germany, until democracy can be established, while the US, the UK, and France will hold the rest.

However, a conservative Democratic coalition with the Republicans gives the GOP a strong majority in Congress. They're a Who's Who list of scandals in the Democratic Party; Secretary of State Kennedy's stock manipulation and possible rum-running is prime on the list, and all are met with pardons from the White House, for . For each "movement", the pianist opens the keyboard cover, waits the appropriate amount of time, then closes it; that's all. The rice ration has been cut, again, and fishing is difficult when every boat is sunk by American submarines or aircraft. His replacement is a man who has never commanded a field force in his life, but seems a stalwart pile of man, General Leslie Groves. Patton, in high dungeon, slaps the young man with his gloves and attempts to throw him from the hospital; and finds himself being thrown out. As J. Edgar Hoover releases his damaging files and is struck by damaging information about himself in return, about a half-dozen Senators and dozen Congressmen quietly retire or resign? McNair himself is soon on a plane to Algiers, to meet with Bernard Montgomery, Pierre Darlan, and Henri Giraud.

Admiral Pierre Darlan is nearly ready, now. With both the recent British victories in Libya and the tentative approaches made by the Darlan government in Algiers freshly in mind, the Allies pledge to recognize any French government that becomes hostile to the Germans, Vichy or Free French. El Alamein goes largely as per OTL, though less US Lend-Lease aid means that the British take heavier casualties; it's just not enough to change the outcome of the battle. Still, there are 10,000 dead British and five thousand dead from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, total. In Washington, meanwhile, Senator Charles McNary decides that there can be no mercy with the sitting government right now, they have to be broken, and broken hard, before more boys can die. That day, on what was originally planned to be the last day of SecState-designate Alger Hiss' interrogation before Congress, he takes out a file of telegrams recovered from a pumpkin. General George S. Patton, who was billed to be the commander of the forces coming ashore at OMAHA Beach on D-Day, pays a visit to an Army Air Force hospital to speak to the wounded men and reassure them with the sheer magnitude of his presence.

When the last soldier had returned, he resigned from the Army. Its citizens were basically industrious immigrants who 'yearned to breath free' and who asked nothing more than to be given the opportunity to live and work in such a wonderfully stimulating environment. Only the heroic rescue missions carried out by bold transport and bomber pilots kept them from recieving blame at the time; they landed again and again, dodging more and more German flak on the narrow beaches, saving hundreds of trapped soldiers, taking heavy casualties themselves. The Soviet summer offensive has slaughtered millions of Germans, but millions more Russians also were quite surprised to find themselves dead. For Treasury, Wallace manages to find (finally) an academic who he can really trust to follow his agenda. Ranger barely manages to stagger home to New York. One frustrated pilot manages to drop a portion of his bomb load on Long Island; they land in an abandoned warehouse area, killing five and starting a major fire that will do some millions in property damage.