THE WAR IN REVIEW

...Dvvight D. Eisenhower an order of the day in which he stated that the Allies were on the brink of their greatest victory in the west...

...Praising the work which had been done to restore Pearl Harbor, he said it was the "most amazing change" he had ever seen...

...Allied forces were closing a giant pincers movement on the German 7th Army in Normandy which, if successfully concluded, would be one of the most decisive blows of the war...

...Although somewhat slowed down in their drive in the East, the Red Army continued to pound at the weakening Nazi line from Finland to the Carpathian Mountains...

...Meanwhile, the stormy European political picture showed few signs of improving...

...The major stumbling block, according to reports, was a disagreement over which Polish constitution—the 1921 or the 1935—would be adopted as the organic law of reconstituted Poland...

...Speaking of the progress of the American campaign in the Pacific, Admiral Chester Nimitz foresaw the possibility this week of a Japanese defeat without invading the homeland...

...Polish Conference Fizzles As Eisenhower spoke, American forces, which only a fortnight ago had broken through the German lines to spill south into Brittany, were driving north again on the enemy's south flank in an effort to meet the southbound Canadians...

...In the Aleutians, where he made a brief tour of inspection, the President told a gathering of enlisted men that Japan would never again attempt an invasion of the United States through Alaska...

...Douglas MacArthur," he said, had "developed complete accord" both in the understanding of the problems "confronting the Allies in the Pacific," and "in the opinion as to the best methods for their solution...

...MacArthur's airmen were already plastering Davao in the Philippines and the conquest of Guam and Tinian had been completed this week...

...With a harshness that went considerably beyond any previous statements of postwar policy toward Japan, he declared that "the word and honor of Japan cannot be trusted" and that "years of proof" must pass before the Japanese are accepted into a society of nations seeking permanent peace...

...THE WAR IN REVIEW THE front page spotlight which darted around the Pacific last week following President Roosevelt on his first tour of that area since the declaration of war, swept back across the world to France this week...

...American B-29s—the new Superfortresses—were smashing at both ends of the Japanese empire...

...Reports from Moscow indicated that the Russians were massing for a smash into East Prussia, while great tank battles raged on the approaches to Warsaw...

...Oil refineries in Sumatra were attacked and the harbor and ship building facilities at Nagasaki on the Nipponese mainland came in for a heavy raid...

...I am not sure or convinced that invasion will be necessary, but I do believe occupation of Japan would be necessary to insure a winning peace," he declared...

...There was no doubt that great developments impended on the battle-scarred roads to Paris, and at mid-week spectacular new Allied landings on the Mediterranean coast of France heralded the approach of new and greater blows against the Nazis...

...Late in July he visited Pearl Harbor, where he conferred on Pacific strategy with (Jen...

...The powerful encircling movement at midweek drew from the usually cautious Gen...

...In his first wartime conference with the Southwest Pacific commander, the President was reported to have mapped plans for the unconditional surrender of Japan and the liberation of the Philippines...

...Surveying his trip in a nationwide radio address after his arrival back in this country, Mr...

...I cannot tell you if I know when the war will be over either in Europe or in the Far East or the war against Japan," he said...

...The announcement that Premier Stanyslaw Mikolajczyk of the Polish government-in-exile had cut off his mission to Moscow to return to London left little doubt that the attempted reconciliation with the Soviet-sponsored Committee of Liberation had failed...

...In Italy, German troops evacuated Florence before a mounting threat of all-out assault from the British Eighth Army...

...Appealing for continued all-out effort at home, he told the nation that the war would end sooner if the people maintained a continued production of "necessary supplies and ships and planes...

...P^nemy efforts to escape toward Paris through the narrow corridor had brought swarms of Allied planes into the battle, ripping and strafing every railroad and highway being used for evacuation...

...Roosevelt said that the war "was well in hand" in the Pacific, but unlike Churchill, he refused to make any optimistic statements concerning the European war...

...The conferences in Hawaii with his "old friend, Gen...

...Hawaii, he said, had ceased to be an outpost of the United States and had become, instead, "one of our rear areas...

...Meanwhile, American forces were driving steadily over the Pacific to Tokyo...

...Bougies MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz...

...Roosevelt, MacArthur Confer In the Pacific, the big news was the delayed reports of President Roosevelt's tour of some of the important military bases in that area...

...He told newsmen that the United States is going back to the Philippines and that MacArthur would be part of the operation...

...Appealing to all under his command for "the utmost zeal and determination and speedy action" to exploit the opportunity presented to them, the Allied commander in chief declared that "we can make this week a momentous one in the history of this war—a brilliant and fruitful week for us, a fateful one for the ambitions of the Nazi tyrants...

...To safeguard against aggressive acts on the part of Japan or any other Pacific nation, he said the United States must have undisputed control of the line extending from Puget Sound to the Aleutians and to northern China...

...A junction of the two would close the jaws of the trap on some 100,000 badly mauled veterans of the German 7th Army...