THE WAR IN REVIEW

...The consensus seemed to be that Farrell's government would not be recognized...

...Continuing to use strange tactics for pressing the peace agreement, the Russians sent huge bomber armadas to destroy Finnish cities...

...The new government, headed by Gen...

...Although there was general agreement that the German Army would have to be defeated on the ground, the repatriates nevertheless asserted that the raids had caused a shakeup in the Nazi hierarchy and that Air Marshal Hermann Goering, who had promised the German people that they would never experience bombing, from the sky, had been replaced in his number two position by Heinrich Himmler, ruthless leader of the Gestapo...

...THE WAR IN REVIEW THE most curious note in the war news during the past week was the remarkable unanimity of pessimism in the reports from London and Washington concerning prospects for an Allied victory in Europe in 1944...

...Meanwhile, Badoglio, encouraged by the British leader's stand, intimated to newsmen that he and the King would retain control at least until the end of the war...

...Dominating the military news of the week was the growing intensification of air warfare on the Reich...

...Heinzen also reported that "it is highly unlikely that the present regime would attempt to negotiate for peace and Himmler's 600,000 elite guards and secret police bar any change in regime...

...It is a time, he said, "when naturally a lot of rough things have to be said about Great Britain and when popularity is to be gained in that vast community in demonstrating Americanism in its highest form...

...Rumors of an imminent peace for Finland continued to pour out of Europe...

...It was noted, however, that Eden, continuing the discussion the following day, implied the existence of intra-Allied strife when he said, "I can only promise the House plenty of difficulties, plenty of disappointments, and much deception in the times that lie ahead...

...The masses of war-weary civilians are completely inarticulate...

...American Politics Lampooned The Prime Minister, his own political future endangered by his Party's recent reverses in the by-elections, took the occasion to warn the members of the House not to take too seriously what may be said about Britain in the coming election in the "United States...

...Atlantic Charter Gutted The Prime Minister's address, his first war review in five months, covered a broad field of political and military developments and was chiefly significant for the utter frankness with which it junked the terms of the Atlantic Charter in their application to enemy countries...

...Of the wide range of subjects covered in Churchill's speech probably none drew more criticism than the expression of his determination to keep King Victor Emmanuel and Marshal Badoglio at the head of the Italian government...

...Bearing this out was Churchill's admission that he and Stalin had "agreed upon the need for Poland to obtain compensation (for land taken by Russia) at the expense of Germany both in the nqrth and west...

...In Italy, the address was bitterly denounced by liberal leaders...

...Turning to the Pacific war zone, whence came word this week of new and heavier losses for enemy shipping, Churchill asserted that Japanese air power is being overmatched and worn down...

...Although Berlin, whose propagandists this week were making strange talk about weaknesses in their vaunted "Atlantic Wall," chose to interpret the British leader's address to Commons as an admission that the cross-Channel invasion had been postponed until Fall, there was no official confirmation of that view in any of the Allied countries...

...The massive raids, London reported this week, have rendered Nazi factories unable to keep pace with combat losses...

...Of the British position toward Yugoslavia, Churchill declared that his government-, would continue to cooperate with the forces of Marshal Tito, whom he described as the only group in that country doing any effective fighting against the Germans...

...There will be no question," he declared, "of the Atlantic Charter applying to Germany as a matter of right and barring territorial transferences of adjustments in enemy countries...

...Adolf Omodeo, of the Six Party National Liberation Committee, accused Churchill of abandoning Italy's anti-fascist forces...

...The U. S. State Department this week was eyeing the new government very cautiously...

...Although he failed to refer specifically to such disturbing developments as the "Pravda incident," he denied that there had been any disruption in the unity established at the Moscow conference and at Teheran...

...There was political strife in the New World, too, as Argentina underwent another coup d' etat...

...Churchill's speech came in a week of rapidly-developing and far-reaching political news...

...Ralph E. Heinzen, United Press correspondent who reached Lisbon last week after 15 months in a Nazi prison camp, reported that Himmler had not only taken pff the number two spot, but stands ready "to play a more important role should anything happen to Hitler...

...This belated revision of the charter from its original purpose was obviously calculated to open the way for a territorial deal to assist in the settlement of the Polish-Russian boundary dispute...

...I do not in my experience remember a period when foreign policy was so difficult to conduct as it is now...

...British officials set the tone of the reports by encouraging an interpretation of Churchill's remarks to Commons as meaning that victory could not be expected until 1945...

...President Roosevelt followed through when he told newsmen in Washington that he was in agreement with Churchill's statement and reminded them that he had been taking the same position for the past two years...

...Churchill's disavowal of trouble between the Allies corroborated the view expressed by Premier Stalin earlier in the week in an order of the day issued to mark the 26th anniversary of the founding of the Red Army...

...The New Statesman And Nation, British liberal publication, branded him the "forthright defender of 'expediency' and 'Darlanism' " and declared that the Prime Minister seemed to have "cynically discarded from his mind the idea that the Allies are supposed to be fighting for certain political principles and rights...

...Japanese production, he said, is "incomparably small compared with that of the great powers Japan has assailed...

...Declaring that German attempts to split the "anti-Hitlerite coalition" are doomed to failure, Stalin, nevertheless, again reminded the world that the Red Army "fighting alone" was pushing the Germans "to the edge of catastrophe...

...Touched off by Winston Churchill's derisive treatment of the view that Hitler faced imminent collapse and the Prime Minister's statement that he had "certainly given no guarantee or even held out any expectation that the year 1944 will see the end of the European war," the outbreak of gloomy predictions was in notable contrast to the general optimism expressed at the turn of the year by such men as Gen...

...Greece, he said, is "the saddest case of all the 'diseases of defeat' " and added that the Greeks were killing each other with "ammunition sent them to kill Germans...

...Dwight Eisenhower, who predicted victory in 1944...

...Edelmiro J. Farrell, who is reported to be strongly anti-democratic, took power, according to reports, after compelling President Pedro Ramirez to delegate presidential power...

...Himmler, Number Two Man Reporting on the effect of Allied air raids on German morale, American diplomats, newspapermen, and others who have been interned in Germany during the past 13 months and are now being repatriated, declared that the past six months have seen a strengthening of German morale...