All Quiet

On the radio, in the press, in Congress, in Parliament there was the same shrill, urgent clamor. Along the "invasion coast" the Nazis maneuvered, bolstered their elaborate defenses, reportedly rushed some 3,000,000 Europeans away from possible areas of attack and tucked them away in concentration camps in Germany. Over the Continent was the electric tension that precedes a storm.

Said stiff, lean-faced Major General Mark Wayne Clark, Commander of U.S. Ground Forces in Europe: "We are not here to sit on our back ends and be on the defensive. We are here on the offensive. They talk about a second front. All I can say is--the sooner the better." Promising an attack "within the immediate future," Major General Carl Spaatz, Commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces in Britain, declared: "Our enemy at the appointed time will feel the might of a thoroughly coordinated British-American air force."

In the air, foul and squally, the birds of the R.A.F. continued to soar back and forth across the Channel. Night after night, R.A.F. crews flew to Germany, dropped their bombs on the Ruhr.

But the appointed time was not yet. At week's end all was quiet on the second front.

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