THE WAR IN REVIEW
THE WAR IN REVIEW FOR six bloody months Allied forces in Italy have been locked in stalemate with the stubborn German defenders of the Gustav Line. This week, under some of the most powerful...
...Tito has been known for sometime to be angling, not only for Mihailovitch's removal, but for recognition of his group as the real government of Yugoslavia...
...The new invasion gives MacArthur a bomber base within range of the Philippines and, according to his own appraisal, "presages reconquest of the entire province of Dutch New Guinea...
...At midweek this line, named after the German leader himself, was under relentless Allied pressure...
...In England the conference of British premiers adjourned, announced to the world that it had taken steps favoring a new kind of League of Nations to enforce peace...
...There was little other ground action in the European theater...
...In the Pacific island warfare, Gen...
...Mihailovitch was accused of collaborating with the Nazis—a charge which he and his supporters have emphatically denied...
...Joseph W. Stilwell's troops, closing in on Myitkyina, main Japanese supply base in northern Burma, were expected to announce its fall momentarily...
...Tito Wins First Round Biggest political news of the week came from Europe...
...Chinese forces seemed to have rallied and checked the on-rush of the Japanese invasion forces in Honan province...
...The "inferior" Poles smashed through at several points, while the "old ladies" of Britain rolled up impressive gains...
...Meanwhile, the country heard a timely warning from Admiral Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief of the United States Navy, against the tendency to believe that victory is near...
...This week, under some of the most powerful artillery and infantry blows yet struck in this war, that stalemate was shattered...
...The Russian front continued quiet...
...But best news of all was the report that Lt...
...He seemed this week to have won the first step in his campaign...
...Following the release of a sudden epidemic of interviews with Marshal Josip (Tito) Broz, Jugoslav Partisan leader, it was announced that King Peter had ousted Tito's bitter rival, Gen...
...Gradually, Tito and his left-wing Partisans came to be looked upon as the real forces of resistance...
...Allied forces, fighting through some of the most difficult mountainous terrain in Europe, had overrun the Gustav Line and sent the Nazi defenders reeling back to their second defense line on the road to Rome...
...Douglas Mac-Arthur scored another spectacular victory in the capture of Wakde Island, strong enemy air base off the north coast of Dutch New Guinea...
...King declared that we are still far from victory in either the European or Asiatic war...
...Allied air activity continued at its record-shattering pace, however, pounding away at the French invasion coast and German industrial, troop, and transportation centers...
...Draja Mihailovitch, as War Minister in the Jugoslav cabinet...
...Mark Clark, who narrowly missed death from an enemy booby trap this week, were striking some non-Aryan but extremely telling blows...
...This sudden action, taken apparently to appease Tito, who, because he has been carrying on most of the active resistance against the Nazi invasion forces, has been gaining in favor in London and Washington, may or may not bring to an end the long and bitter quarrel between the so-called patriotic forces within the German-occupied country...
...Good News From Asia Meanwhile, reports from the Pacific theater indicated that the war on the mainland, temporarily at least, had taken a more cheerful turn...
...In an effort to bolster the Chinese determination to continue the war, Vice President Wallace left for Chungking...
...For in the vanguard of the assaulting forces many of the despised "inferior races" of the world were playing a prominent part...
...Mihailovitch, who was in King Peter's cabinet when he fled the country at the time of invasion, remained behind, ostensibly for the purpose of carrying on guerrilla warfare against the Nazis...
...It was the "decadent" French who first breached the Gustav Line...
...Meanwhile, the mixed races of the American Fifth Army, under Lt...
...To the German soldier, secure in his sturdy mountain defenses and his belief in the superhuman qualities of Aryanism, the slashing attack of the Allies was bitter medicine...
...The only other major political development involved the mixed-up affairs of Jugoslavia...
...The President, Wallace said, asked him to carry the assurance to the Chinese that "neither the swamps of Burma nor the Himalaya Mountains nor Japanese warships shall stop America from bringing all possible and prompt aid to this great and enduring people...
Vol. 8 • May 1944 • No. 22
