THE WAR IN REVIEW
THE WAR IN REVIEW JITTERY Wall Street, shaken for several months by the prospect of imminent peace in Europe, steadied itself somewhat this week as signs of extended conflict in both the European...
...In addition to his warning that the war may extend into 1945, he made public some hitherto undivulged figures on Allied operations in France...
...In Europe the Germans had just chewed up almost an entire division of British sky-borne troops and were counter-attacking on a front that was largely stalemated from Holland to Italy...
...At mid-week the American First Army, which had blasted a hole through the German Siegfried Line, launched a powerful offensive in an attempt to exploit the breach...
...Kazimierz Sosnkowski, commander-in-chief of Polish forces, as a gesture of appeasement to Stalin and the Moscow-inspired National Committee for Liberation, resulted in violent reaction in Moscow...
...At least 1,220 enemy surface craft were destroyed or damaged in the past month, according to reports from headquarters...
...The President's denunciation followed by a few days an order of the State Department that American northbound merchantmen are to cease picking up cargoes at Argentine ports, thus imposing a virtual shipping boycott, since American southbound ships have not picked up Argentine cargoes for more than a year...
...THE WAR IN REVIEW JITTERY Wall Street, shaken for several months by the prospect of imminent peace in Europe, steadied itself somewhat this week as signs of extended conflict in both the European and Pacific theaters continued to mount...
...Spokesmen for the Chiang Kai-shek government were openly critical of Churchill's reference to the "generous" aid being given to the Chinese by the Allies...
...Developments in Chungking reflected the growing seriousness of China's position...
...On the contrary he cautioned against discussion of the question, at the present critical stage...
...Observers coupled his sudden appearance in the British capital with Churchill's strained defense of the military situation in India and Burma and wondered if he had not been called back to answer questions dealing with his failure to develop a Burmese offensive...
...Invasion casualties, he said, amounted to close to a million men for the Germans, while America lost 145,-000 and England 90,000...
...He did not touch upon the explosive question of Poland's internal political problems...
...Revealing that between 2,000,-000 and 3,000,000 Allied troops are now in western Europe, he declared that many more would be hurled at Hitler if he doesn't surrender...
...Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who has shown more optimism on the course of the war than any of the other Allied leaders, took a leading part in dispelling some of the rosy pictures o the war in Europe ending in 1944 by stating in a talk to the House of Commons that it may extend into 1945...
...Report On Invasion Casualties With the exception of the new American drive around Aachen, the big news of the week was Churchill's appearance in the House of Commons...
...The appointment of Gen...
...There were reports that Chiang's government was due for a shake-up, with the possibility that Communists would be given representation on...
...Americans continued to fight their way ahead in the island warfare, adding several new islands to their conquests...
...The action of Polish Premier Mikolajczyk in removing Gen...
...The new pessimism reflected developments on the battlefronts in all theaters...
...There were political storms in foreign relations in the Western Hemisphere too...
...Discussing the vexatious political problems of Europe the Prime Minister let it be known that he was prepared to go along with Russia in her Polish boundary dispute...
...On the Asiatic mainland, however, the situation seemed to be growing more desperate, as the Japanese rolled ahead in the drive to split China in two...
...Meanwhile, back in London Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, commander in chief of the southeast Asia campaign, popped up for "strategic" conferences...
...Tadeusz Komorowski, head of Polish underground forces, to succeed Sosnokowski apparently enraged the pro-Russian president of the Polish Liberation Committee so much that he announced that the officials of the Polish government-in-exile would be brought to criminal trial...
...The United States Government was wielding the big stick at Argentina in an effort to bring that country into line with whatever policy the State Department has in mind...
...At mid-week Poland's situation had reached a new crisis...
...He denounced "the growth of Nazi-Fascist influence and the increasing application of Nazi-Fascist methods" in the South American country and blasted the Argentine government, which he distinguished from the Argentine people, for repudiating its "solemn inter-American obligations...
...In this country the Office of War Information, announcing the results of a survey in the War, Navy, and State Departments, forecast that the Pacific war would last for at least another two years...
...He also branded Komorowski a criminal...
...his ministerial staff...
...American air and sea power concluded the most successful month of preying on Japanese shipping since the beginning of the war...
...The Fresident, himself, stepped into the picture to back up the strong position taken by Secretary Hull...
...Grim Situation In China News of the Pacific war continued both good and bad...
...He declared that Britain would help the Soviets obtain "the security she (Russia) is entitled to have on her west front," and added that "Russia has a right to our support in this matter...
Vol. 8 • October 1944 • No. 41
