THE WAR IN REVIEW
THE WAR IN REVIEW FIGHTING with the same desperate fanaticism that has characterized the history of German Nazism, the armies of Adolf Hitler stood at bay this week on a giant arc that extended...
...Eisenhower denied recent reports that he has been in ill health and suffering from nervous exhaustion...
...Mixed News From Pacific Over the Philippine capital of Manila, this week, for the first time since the Japanese, overran the islands the Filipinos saw American planes, in...
...action, smashing and ripping at the enemy in preparation for the assault that would free the islands from its conquerors...
...To an anxious world they posed these questions: How long can they stand up under the crushing blows of the powerful Allied attack...
...2. Surrender of the Petsamo area in the far north with its port and rich nickel deposits...
...And in this case liberation meant liberation, for America is pledged to grant the Filipinos their independence once the enemy has been driven from their soil...
...Nimitz announced that 337 enemy planes were destroyed, 40 ships sunk, 46 other ships probably sunk or damaged, and ground facilities "extensively damaged" in the two day savage attack which cost our forces 11 planes and 15 men...
...Writing for the Field Publications from London, Frederick Kuh charged that although Allied Military Government personnel is ready to move into Germany, they have no instructions on how to deal with many of the important questions that will confront them...
...It was significant that the most "authoritative" source of al...
...The stubborn resistance shown along the Western Front in the past fortnight had dampened some of the rampant optimism concerning an early end of the war and many of the "experts" were advancing their chosen V-E dates...
...While the battle along the Westwall raged back and forth in a stalemate that might be broken at any time, Allied forces in Italy struck a shattering blow at the German Gothic Line, the main defense system across northern Italy...
...In the Pacific, where America alone was carrying the fight to the enemy, there was none of the political wrangling that followed the armed forces in Europe...
...THE WAR IN REVIEW FIGHTING with the same desperate fanaticism that has characterized the history of German Nazism, the armies of Adolf Hitler stood at bay this week on a giant arc that extended from Holland to Italy and north to the Baltic countries...
...Outstanding political news of the week was the disclosure by the Kremlin of the harsh terms imposed on Finland whose government signed an armistice with Russia and Britain...
...Harsh Terms For Finland But throughout Europe political developments continued to darken the cheerful military news...
...They swarmed on Allied air-borne troops in Holland from all sides and threatened for a time to annihilate one whole contingent...
...Must the war in Europe drag its way into another Winter...
...Lease to Russia for 50 years of the Porkkala Peninsula with its naval base on the Finnish Gulf along with a "considerable stretch of sea land...
...In a daring stroke, Admiral Halsey drove his task forces into Philippine waters and unleashed a devastating air attack on the area of Manila Bay, which, according to reports from Admiral Nimitz' headquarters, smashed Japan's Philippine-based air force arid routed the enemy fleet from its bases in that area...
...The Russians charged that the Finns were helping the Germans to withdraw...
...Savage Nazi Resistance It was evident on the western front that the Germans were determined to hold their homeland against invasion at all cost...
...The terms of the armistice call for a $300,000,000 indemnity to be paid by the Finns within six years and for the following territorial concessions: 1. Restoration of the 1940 Russo-Finnish border established after the Russo-Finnish war of that year...
...The Finns are thus asked to give up their richest industrial area and 10 per cent of their total population...
...Mark Clark, commander of the Fifth Army, declared that "in nine days the Fifth Army has destroyed the line which it took the Germans nine months to build...
...He admitted that he did have an injured knee, which he twisted while helping to push an airplane away from a danger spot...
...Even before the terms had been made public Moscow had begun to thunder that Finland was violating them by failing to disarm German troops in Finland...
...There was an ominous lull in the Japanese drive on Kweilin, vital communication center, which Allied officials interpreted as a breathing spell for the invaders while they prepared for an all-out smash to take that city and thus complete their objective of cutting China in two and blocking Allied access to the Chinese sea coast...
...Our own officers," Kuh reports, "are-unaware of any measures to assure that U. S., British, and Soviet authorities in Germany shall use an agreed-upon policy for presenting news and opinions...
...His health, he said, except for the knee, was excellent...
...Kuh pointed out that apparently no decisions have as yet been made on what to do with German industries, the policy to be adopted for German currency, and the policy to be followed with German newspapers and radio stations...
...Dwight Eisenhower refused to comment on this question...
...He acknowledged that the Allied advance had been slowed up, but said that the military situation for Germany was hopeless...
...would not commit himself on whether the European war would end this year...
...One whole section of the line was said to have crumbled under the powerful Allied assault and American troops were reported to be spilling through in a smashing drive aimed at Bologna...
...2. How long the Gestapo remains in control of the Reich...
...When questioned this week, Gen...
...The immediate objective of Gen...
...In addition the Finns granted temporary possession of their merchant fleet to the Allies and the use of airfields in south and southwest Finland...
...Reports at mid-week indicated that the German trap around these forces had been broken...
...The length of the war, he said, depends on two main factors: 1. How long the Germans can stand the terrific pounding they are taking from the west, south, and east...
...No Plan For Germany Another political problem plaguing the Allied camp was the lack of any plan for governing Germany when resistance there has collapsed...
...But on the Asiatic mainland the situation continued grave for the Chinese and American forces fighting there...
...Along the front Allied troops were meeting with savage resistance...
...This leased territory is reported to extend to a point only eight miles from the Finnish capital of Helsinki...
...Commenting on the attack, Lt...
...MacArthur, Admiral Nimitz, and Admiral Halsey was the liberation of the Philippines...
...On the eastern front the Soviet offensive In the Balkans had almost completed the conquest of Estonia and was driving through Latvia at a sensational rate of spsed...
...The terms were described by Finnish spokesmen as the hardest in their history...
...They questioned whether the small republic would be able to survive under the terms...
...A new offensive into East Prussia was said to be brewing, while in the Balkans Red Army troops were reported to have crossed the borders of Slovakia and the Balkans...
...A slice of northern border territory was also included...
Vol. 8 • October 1944 • No. 40
