Correction: Document Volume 20. On Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 11:03:39 AM UTC-5, Richard Langworth wrote: > > A choice of fraught alternatives. How best to support the Normandy > invasion was the most serious difference between #Churchill and #Roosevelt > in the closing stages of WW2. Excerpted with key memoranda from *Normandy > and Beyond, The Churchill Documents, Volume 2 > <https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/anvil-invasion-south-france-1944/>0.* > > "My dear Ike…. We were so often in full agreement that the tale of our > relations should be easy and agreeable for each of us to tell.... As you > know, I did not agree with 'Anvil,' which was launched in 1944, as I > thought it too far to assist you in your Normandy struggle. As things > turned out it was you who helped 'Anvil' and not 'Anvil' which helped you." > —WSC to Eisenhower, 1 July 1948 > > "I made the attempt in my narrative [*Crusade in Europe*] to outline > every major point that you advanced with respect to it and then gave my own > reasons for insisting upon the attack. I made the observation that I always > felt that your view could easily have been the correct one provided the > Western Allies were at that moment concerned with the post-hostilities > situation in Europe." —Eisenhower to WSC, 12 July 1948 >
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