Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

by Bruce Lee

Confidential military sources told the author that so great was the fear that the Russians might continue attacking westward in Europe, and not stop at any proscribed line of demarcation such as a boundary of occupation, or even the Elbe River, that, in April, 1945, captured German units were being reformed and prepared by the Anglo-American forces to stop any further Soviet advance. The author has not been able to document these statements, made by officers of high rank, and can only report them as unsubstantiated comments. But given the statements made to the Combined Chiefs by England’s Sir John Dill and Air Marshal Welsh in 1944, which are quoted later on in this work, the British obviously possessed a more pessimistic view of future Soviet intentions than did Roosevelt and others in his administration.