[lavaroise]

unless..unless...that old bastard Patton was intending to take it to the Soviets.

That would have saved millions of lives from communist revolutions worldwide. Too bad I guess.

[kms61]

There's no way the public would have supported continuing the war in Europe against a country which only a few weeks before had been considered an ally. There would have been a revolt. There was a great deal of opposition to even transferring troops from the European theatre to the ongoing war in Asia. The sentiment was that they had already done their part, now bring them home.