THE WAR IN REVIEW
THE WAR IN REVIEW JUST four years ago this Summer, Adolf Hitler, in the company of a coterie of his Nazi bully boys, made a trip to one of the most widely known landmarks in the world—Paris'...
...I set great value on American help and I feel that hers is a potent voice...
...According to reports, the uprisings were being ruthlessly dealt with by occupation authorities...
...There he glutted his eyes on what was then—and still is—• the richest prize of the Third Reich's lightening conquest of the continent of Europe...
...Although it was first believed that the landings were made in an effort to break the stalemate in Italy, it was obvious this week that the greater flow of Allied advance was to the west rather than the east...
...On other sectors of the front the Russians were striking powerful offensive blows against stiffened enemy resistance...
...Coinciding with the American smash at the city, a fierce revolt against German rule broke out in Paris...
...The island is only 300 miles from the Philippines and will provide excellent advance bases for the expected drive on these islands...
...The European political pot boiled over with several developments this week...
...With their backs to the Seine River, the badly mauled Germans were being pressed into another pocket by American troops on their left and British and Canadians veterans on the right...
...Of America's role in helping to solve the problem of India, he said: "I wish I could say that America has done all she could toward the solution of the deadlock...
...American airpower, throwing a canopy of bombers and fighters over the Seine, prevented any attempts at a large scale withdrawal...
...Further south, Gen...
...THE WAR IN REVIEW JUST four years ago this Summer, Adolf Hitler, in the company of a coterie of his Nazi bully boys, made a trip to one of the most widely known landmarks in the world—Paris' Eiffel Tower...
...Mac-Arthur's smashing blows at the enemy base on Halmahera resulted this week in a withdrawal of Japanese air forces from the island west of New Guinea...
...B-29s were over the enemy homeland again in devastating raids on industrial centers...
...In an address to his Parliament, Bulgarian Prime Minister Ivan Bagrianov bluntly declared that the "government is determined to remove all obstacles that stand in the way of the Bulgarian peoples' love for peace" and that the Bulgarian people "never wanted to interfere in a large-scale conflict between great powers...
...There were political rumblings in the Axis family too...
...For the first time since he was released from his British prison, Gandhi was again in the news as he pressed for a solution to the problem of freedom for his people...
...I confess that I have not taken into account the limitations of international diplomacy, but it cannot be that Americans do not attach importance to moral values...
...He denied, however, that peace could be maintained by relying on force...
...Moscow acknowledged that Red Army troops guarding the corridor to the Gulf of Riga had yielded to strong German attacks...
...Reeling back through the narrow escape corridor it was able to keep open east of Falaise, the bleeding remnants of von Kluge's forces found themselves facing another gigantic trap...
...At mid-week, American doughboys, riding on the hard-charging tanks commanded by "Old Blood And Guts," were said to be in sight of Eiffel Tower...
...At a time when the Anglo-American attitude toward the French leader seemed definitely improved, reports from London declared that another head-on clash was imminent over de Gaulle's insistence on going to Paris with advanced American troops...
...In an interview with the New York Times, the Indian leader declared that the Allied appeal for the world to unite in a war for democracy "must sound hypocritical" as long as 400,000,000 Indians are under foreign domination...
...Meanwhile, the invasion of Southern France seemed to be developing satisfactorily enough for Allied spokesmen...
...Experts were puzzled about the general purpose and immediate objectives of the new invasion...
...Meanwhile, American arms were striking new blows at the Japanese...
...Rumblings In The Axis Family There was political trouble in Italy, too, where a collapse of the new coalition government of Premier Ivan-oe Bonomi appeared imminent...
...Reports from Turkey declared that such negotiations have been carried on for sometime, although they appear now to have reached a stalemate because of the Rumanian reluctance to deal directly with the Soviet Government...
...India, given its freedom, he said, would provide greater help in the war against Japan and would take a part in international cooperation for peace...
...There British, American, and Canadian forces were staking all on a knockout punch that would smash the German 7th Army...
...Commenting on Wavell's blunt refusal to see him, Gandhi, for the first time departing from his famed formula of "passive resistance" and "moral suasion," declared that it was clear that Indian freedom could only be gained by "developing enough strength to wrest it from" Britain...
...Berlin claimed that the corridor has been cut and that the 200,000 German troops alleged to have been trapped in the Baltic countries now had an avenue of escape...
...Germans Still Have Punch On the eastern front the Germans were demonstrating that they still held a heavy offensive punch...
...A new storm was brewing over the head of Gen...
...Wavell Rebuffs Gandhi He was scheduled soon to hold a conference with Mo-hamed Ali Jinnah, president of the All-India Moslem League, in an effort to come to some agreement on the Hindu-Moslem problem, which British imperialists allege to be the insurmountable obstacle in the path of Indian independence...
...Rumania, too, was reported to be negotiating for peace...
...There was talk that the city would soon fall or be by-passed by the swift-moving Americans...
...A premature uprising in Warsaw gave the Germans such an opportunity in the East...
...Mohandas K. Gandhi...
...An effort on the part of Gandhi to meet and discuss the problem with British authorities was sharply rebuffed by Field Marshall Sir Archibald Wavell, viceroy of India...
...Some thought the immediate major objective was the Rhone Valley through which a drive toward the north might develop...
...Allies Spring New Trap While the drive for Paris was the most spectacular phase of the battle for France, a more significant Allied blow was being struck further to the northwest...
...The question of Indian independence, and the related problem of western imperialism in Asia, was again laid squarely before the world by the powerful little leader of the Indian nationalist movement...
...This week the proud capital of what was once a mighty French empire could not longer be considered a safe German possession...
...Charles de Gaulle, the storm center of all questions involving France...
...Bulgaria was drawing closer to a break with the Reich...
...George S. Pat-ton, were battering the Germans back toward Paris at a sensational pace...
...American tank units, under the command of the brilliant and temperamental Lt...
...Biggest and most significant political development of the week, however, came from the Asiatic area of conflict...
...It is expected that whatever agreement is reached by the two leaders will be acceptable to the Moslem League and Gandhi's All-India Congress Party...
...There was some apprehension that the Americans would not make a frontal assault on the city, but would surround it and cut it off, thus leaving the Germans to crush the underground forces before effective aid could reach them...
...Prime Minister Churchill was in Rome this week where he held a conference with Marshal Tito and other Yugoslav leaders...
...High Allied authorities, on the somewhat vague ground that it might hamper military operations, were reported to be opposed to his plan...
Vol. 8 • August 1944 • No. 35
