THE WAR IN REVIEW
THE WAR IN REVIEW ANOTHER Winter of war in Europe seemed a more certain prospect this week as developments on the long semi-circular front produced among the official and unofficial Allied military...
...In Italy much the same conditions prevailed, and there were reports that the Germans were throwing fresh troops into the fighting there...
...During the exile of the de Gaulle forces in North Africa and London, Moscow was extending a friendly hand at every turn while Great Britain and the United States maintained a cool attitude toward the French representatives...
...He added that the United States "must make landings on the China coast in order to secure a land mass close enough to the Japanese Empire to enable us to employ the air forces which will be at our disposal...
...As the battle between the Moscow Poles and the London Poles became more bitter Berlin stepped into the picture with overtures to the Polish people and government-in-exile...
...Hitler's death, he wrote, would mean a disintegration of Nazi control, for he is the sole factor of cohesiveness in the brutal Nazi political machine...
...De Gaulle, according to reports, has been rebuffed by Moscow in several proposals he has made to strengthen Russian-French ties...
...Speaking from his experiences at the front, Knickerbocker declared that there are perhaps 80 Germans who want to quit to every one wanting to continue...
...Whether the meeting would concern itself with the Polish crisis was not known...
...Chiang Regime Barks Back In China the Japanese rolled ahead in their drive to isolate Chinese and American forces- in the interior from access to the eastern sea coast...
...Europe's stormy political winds increased in velocity and variability this week...
...The offensive launched last week by the American First Army near Aachen was meeting with terrific enemy resistance and although some advances were being made, it was apparent that progress was slow and costly...
...The Germans, it was reported, had smashed the patriotic uprising in Warsaw and had taken the Polish underground leader, Gen...
...Obviously irked at Churchill's recent reference to the "lavish" aid being sent to China, a spokesman for Chiang Kai-shek's government described the United States , and British help as pitilessly inadequate...
...Only at the extreme flanks of the long front were the Russians able to make any headway...
...There was speculation that President Roosevelt would join the other two Allied leaders for discussion of postwar control of Germany...
...On the eastern front the whole central sector was still at stalemate with Warsaw apparently more solidly in the hands of the Germans after the collapse of Polish underground resistance this week...
...Douglas McArthur's disposal for moves against the Philippines...
...Charles de Gaulle was cooling off...
...THE WAR IN REVIEW ANOTHER Winter of war in Europe seemed a more certain prospect this week as developments on the long semi-circular front produced among the official and unofficial Allied military authorities a drastic revision of the earlier optimism which prevailed during the sensational American sweep across France...
...Now that de Gaulle is back in France and is heading the provisional government, the situation has reversed itself to some extent...
...Winter fighting conditions, it was admitted by Allied spokesmen, would militate in favor of the Germans...
...The weather, too, would neutralize some of the Allied advantages in the air...
...The 80 are kept in line by tne savagery of the Nazi police organization and—although he did not say it in so many words-;-the blind stupidity of such American spokesmen as Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and such British Germanphobes as Lord Vansit-tart...
...At Pearl Harbor, Admiral Chester Nimitz revealed that the typhoon season is hampering American operations in the Pacific, but he reaffirmed that the Pacific fleet will be at Gen...
...The same conditions were evident on all other sectors of the Western front...
...Writing from London, H. R. Knickerbocker of the Marshall Field publications could offer only the sudden death of the Nazi dictator as the sole hope for an end of the war before "the first dry weeks of next year...
...Powerful Nazi Resistance The new melancholy note of Knickerbocker and other correspondents was amply buttressed by news from the front lines...
...Komorowski, prisoner...
...The total tonnage, "from Pearl ' Harbor to the present," he said, would not "sustain a single British or American division in combat for one week...
...The fanatical determination of one man—Adolf Hitler—was described by some observers as the major difference between an early German collapse and several more months of fighting in the bitter cold of a European Winter...
...The political status of France was also prominent in the news as signs mounted to indicate that the cordiality between the Kremlin and Gen...
...Appearing in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Winston Churchill spoke of the Western front offensive and warned that "a great deal of blood is going to be shed in the next couple of months...
...Two high-ranking U. S. officials came forward with comment on the war in the Pacific during the past week...
...Snow and mud would complicate the supply problem for the Allies to a far greater degree than it would for the Germans since their network of railroads and highways has been built with an eye to this purpose...
...At mid-week P.rime Minister Churchill and Foreign Secretary Eden were in Moscow to confer with Stalin...
...George C. Marshall, U. S. Chief of Staff, disclosed that the Pacific was was, so far ahead of schedule that the supply problem was difficult...
...It was obvious that the Nazi high command was attempting to capitalize on the failure of the Allies to arrive at any solution to the Polish problem...
...In- Paris, the Communists have taken a distinctly unfriendly attitude toward his regime, although de Gaulle has made several gestures of appeasement to win their support...
Vol. 8 • October 1944 • No. 42
