While U.S. tanks clanked into the suburbs of Paris, the London News Chronicle's political correspondent, E. P. Montgomery, brooded over a nightmare that worries a lot of other people: by going underground the Nazis might be able to prolong the war indefinitely.
Groaned Correspondent Montgomery: "The war [in Germany] will go on-underground. Allied military patrols will be ambushed . . . administrators assassinated . . . commanders will die mysteriously. . . . Hitler and the Nazis—particularly Himmler—have learned from their own bitter experience how effective the underground resistance can be. . . .
"There will be a strange reluctance on...