THE WAR IN REVIEW
THE WAR IN REVIEW TO an anxious Europe, waiting tensely this week for the first flash of news that Allied military might massed in England had struck in the greatest amphibious operation all...
...Finnish Negotiations Collapse Meanwhile, developments in the India and Burma campaigns were still obscured...
...The war against the Japanese, he said, is in its "offensive stage" and is progressing "increasingly well...
...While the "Second Front" thus remained in its "war-of-nerves" phase, Australian and American troups under the command of Gen...
...George "Blood And Guts" Patton had arrived in Britain to participate in the great assault...
...The underground in the conquered countries was said to be on a 24 hour alert and receiving daily instructions from the British shortwave...
...Numerical inferiorities of the American forces in the Pacific during the early phases of the war have been reversed," he said and added that "our submarines and planes are cutting deeper and deeper into the vital Japanese shipping...
...The British Government, in an unprecedented move, drastically curbed all travel to neu-tral Eire and abrogated the freedom of neutral diplomats to move about the country and send uncensored messages...
...The fight to protect this line may develop into some of the "heaviest fighting seen on the dormant Chinese fronts in many months...
...Gen...
...A more reassuring picture of the war against Japan came this week in a report from Admiral Ernest King, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet, to Secretary of Navy Frank Knox...
...Finnish representatives were reported to have balked at the Russian reparations demand of $600,000,000 within five years...
...MacArthur himself landed soon after the second wave swarmed onto the beach...
...He praised his men, telling them that the landing was the best executed operation of its kind he had ever seen...
...Coinciding with.a German broadcast that a tremendous invasion armada was massing in English waters, was the announcement that Lt...
...He warned, however, that the Japanese would strike back desperately although they were doomed to eventual annihilation...
...Europe, like the rest of the world, waited for "D Day...
...In China the Japanese opened a new offensive aimed at seizing the last important railway line...
...Douglas MacAr-thur provided the biggest military news in a bold amphibious assault on the strategic north coast of New Guinea...
...Signs that the epic blow was imminent mounted hourly...
...Adolf Hitler's own newspaper, Voelkischer Beobachter, warned the German people to expect the bloodiest battles of history in the near future...
...According to Stockholm correspondents, the rejection of the Russian terms was a victory for right-wing elements in Finland who argued that Germany may not lose the war...
...At the signing of the British-American mutual aid agreement in February of 1942, he said, he had demanded and obtained from the President definite assurance the empire would not be committed to the abolition of imperial preference...
...Cooperation with the United States in the Pacific, he let it be known, will give way to empire unity in that area...
...THE WAR IN REVIEW TO an anxious Europe, waiting tensely this week for the first flash of news that Allied military might massed in England had struck in the greatest amphibious operation all history, the arrival of May, once heralded with leftist demonstrations and flower festivals, this year meant only that the hour of the great attack was drawing close...
...In a triumphant communique announcing the daring blow, MacArthur termed it a "Bataan in reverse" and declared that it brought to 140,000 the Japanese forces now "neutralized and strategically impotent" from New Guinea to the Solomon Islands...
...Official British reports that the Japanese drive against Imphal had been thrown back were received with a good deal of skepticism by most of the world's newspapers, which were engaged in protest over the stupidly drastic censorship imposed on all news dispatches filed from India...
...Significant political developments in Europe included the Moscow announcement that peace negotiations with Finland had collapsed and the charge that Finnish leaders "want to retain Finland as a vassal of Germany...
...Allied airpower swarmed over the continent in unprecedented numbers, gutting the military vitals of the continent in the so-called "softening up" process...
...Our fleets move in the central Pacific unchallenged...
...Echoing the sentiments of the blame-Ameriea-for-everything school in this country, the Prime Minister expressed himself in favor of the work of the League of Nations and, specifically referring to America, declared that the League would have been successful if it "had been properly backed up...
...The sensational Russian offensive had come to a standstill, a lull which many observers took to be a period of preparation before launching a powerful drive to coincide with a smash from the West, for which Gen...
...In a gigantic operation, involving the carefully coordinated use of tremendous amounts of sea, land, and air forces, the Allies stormed ashore at Hollandia and Aitape to isolate another 60,000 Japanese troops from their supply bases...
...Blood And Guts' To London Jittery Berlin chattered incessantly of its "impregnable" defenses on the Channel and predicted that the blow would most likely come before the end of April...
...Tramping about inspecting the large amounts of captured enemy supplies, his presence so electrified some of the soldiers they forgot to salute...
...Heavy censorship imposed by Chinese officials made it impossible to judge the nature and scope of the new offensive and the Chinese ability to resist...
...In a candid revelation of the behind-the-scenes diplomacy leading up to the promulgation of the Atlantic Charter, he said that at the conference with President Roosevelt he had asked for the insertion of the famous clause "with due respect for existing obligations," thus guaranteeing the fullest possible rights for the empire units in their relations with other nations...
...Churchill's Empire Safeguards In London Prime Minister Churchill made the big political news...
...Ending a debate in the House of Commons, Churchill made it plain that he does not intend the British Empire to come second to any world organization formed for the preservation of peace...
...Dwight Eisenhower, Allied Commander-in-Chief, has reportedly completed plans...
Vol. 8 • May 1944 • No. 18
