THE WAR IN REVIEW

...From neutral Turkey came reports that the governments of Rumania, Hungary, and Bulgaria were seeking a way out of their present predicament...

...In one sector Red Army units, encountering almost no serious resistance, had rolled westward almost 500 miles in five weeks...

...THE WAR IN REVIEW AS ALLIED ARMIES continued their relentless pounding at Adolf Hitler's battered European fortress this week, there was a growing acceptance in this country of the view that Germany's days in World War II are numbered...

...Meanwhile, Turkey was said to be on the brink of war with Germany...

...Omar Bradley's American troops had ripped through the left flank of the enemy's line and were driving ahead at a faster rate than at anytime since the campaign against Cherbourg...

...The shaky condition of these governments, some of which are reported ready to abdicate, was viewed by competent observers as an opportunity for an Allied political offensive based on broader and more effective terms than the short-sighted Unconditional Surrender formula...

...Another Russian spearhead was pointed at the Latvian capital of Riga in an attempt to cut off hundreds of thousands of German traops in the northern Baltic areas...

...The super-fortresses were reported to have struck a devastating blow against Japanese industries in Manchuria in the first daylight precision bombing test for the new sky giants...

...Although the Kremlin granted recognition to the Committee as the legal government of Poland, there was some hope that the Polish group in London might be brought into the picture when it was reported that Stalin had agreed to discuss the question with leaders of the Polish government-in-exile...

...In contrast to this growing optimism, however, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, who recently returned from an inspection tour of the battlefronts, warned that the end of the war in Europe is not yet in sight to the men who are doing the fighting...

...Sponsored by the Soviet regime, the new committee was openly contemptuous of the Polish government-in-exile in London...

...Stimson's words of caution were in contrast to the suggestion a fortnight ago of Prime Minister Winston Churchill that Germany's collapse might come "earlier than we have a right to say...

...It claimed for itself all authority in deciding questions affecting Poland...

...Although the Anglo-American advance had finally picked up great momentum, it could not compare with the amazing speed with which the Russians in the east were driving ahead...

...Within Germany the political situation seemed to have been temporarily stabilized under the skilled bloodletting of home front commander Heinrich Himmler, who with Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels, ruled every phase of German life...

...Warsaw, the Polish capital, became a Red prize at mid-week...

...With the^left flank thus unhinged, British forces swiftly exploited the advantage to mark up some of the most impressive gains since the invasion...

...The note put the Argentine government of President Edelmiro J. Farrell on notice that it will not be extended recognition by its neighbors until there are "conclusive acts and demonstrations that there have been fundamental changes" in its "policy toward the United Nations...

...Berlin admitted that Turkish officials were considering breaking economic and diplomatic ties with the Reich, and from other sources there were persistent rumors that the Ankara government would declare war on Germany to show its sympathy toward the Allies and to gain entry to the peace table...

...There were reports that the German High Command was rushing up reserves to check the powerful Red offensive...

...At mid-week Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk was in Moscow, accompanied by a member of his cabinet who has insisted in the past that the Polish group come to terms with Moscow...

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...The note charged that the Argentine government has failed to five up to its pledge to cooperate in support of the war against the Axis and has "openly and notoriously" given "affirmative assistance to the declared enemies of the United Nations...

...Reports of unrest within the satellite countries continued to break in the news...

...Such reports seemed doubtful, however, in view of the growing peril in the west and the steady pressure in Italy where the British Eighth Army was threatening the German position in Florence...

...It was more likely that the Germans were switching troops along the front to make the strongest stand where German soil was in the most imminent peril of invasion...

...Bolstering the viewpoint of those predicting an early defeat for Germany were some sensational military developments on both the eastern and western fronts...

...Some of America's most cautious observers, watching developments on the battlefronts and within Germany and her satellites predicted an early collapse of the Nazi effort...

...German Satellites Restive At mid-week the Russian drive was roaring ahead, had crossed into East Prussia, and was deep into old Poland...

...It was within the Reich's satellite nations that the four all-powerful rulers of Germany faced their most pressing problem this week...

...In a sharply worded note sent to 19 American republics, Secretary of State Cordell Hull accused the government of Argentina of having "deserted the common cause" of its neighbor nations...

...The charges were denied by the South American government which countered with a recitation of measures which it alleges it took against the Axis...

...Argentina Gets Slapped Here in the Western Hemisphere the strange and erratic role of Argentina brought new developments...

...The Polish-Russian dispute was more aggravated than ever this week by the developments that followed the creation in Moscow of a Polish Committee for National Liberation to govern liberated territory in Poland...

...In the Pacific war, the big news this week was made by America's new, long-range bombers, the-B-29's...