THE WAR IN REVIEW
THE WAR IN REVIEW THE most optimistic view of the European war uttered by any responsible Allied spokesman in many weeks came from Marshal Josef Stalin this week after more than a month of...
...Knowing this, the Germans have thrown more men into the positions dominating the Schelde Estuary than they had in Aachen and resistance has been fierce...
...An enemy attempt to land re-enforcements on Leyte was beaten off by naval planes...
...The United Nations face undoubted victory," he said...
...Russia, he declared, had destroyed 120 enemy divisions, leaving "only 204 standing against us...
...Thousands of words, printed and spoken, left nothing but confusion...
...Action In Europe Except for the Red Army drive on Budapest, the capital of Hungary, there was little of noteworthy interest in the military developments of the week...
...On the Asiatic continent military developments reflected the troubled and disunited political situation in China...
...MacArthur Advances In the Pacific, Gen...
...The only way is to create a special organization of the United Nations to preserve peace and security, give it armed forces, and make it responsible to apply them immediately to avert or suppress aggression...
...Chiang did not refer to the Communist problem as a factor in the current explosion in China, but Foreign Minister T. V. Soong acknowledged earlier in the week that the strife between the Chungking regime and the Moscow-inspired Chinese Communists had been a subject of "friendly discussion" during the recent negotiations at the Chinese capital in which Donald M. Nelson and Maj...
...Joseph Stilwell, American commander in China, at the request of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek continued to have far-reaching repercussions here in America...
...At midweek, however, there were signs that the route would be cleared as reports told of the capture of almost half of the estimated enemy garrisons...
...MacArthur's invasion forces pushed relentlessly ahead on Leyte Island and, according to a headquarters report, had accounted for 30,000 enemy troops, either captured, wounded, or killed in the first 13 days of fighting...
...There wer-e charges that the action was a victory for anti-democratic forces within China...
...Patrick Hurley represented the United States...
...Aachen, the first large German city to fall to Allied invaders, was retaken again this week by a hard-hitting German counter offensive...
...Difference In Personality' President Roosevelt, himself, added little to the pub-lie's knowledge when he told a press conference that it was "just one of those things...
...The western front too was static, with reports giving the Nazis the edge in the week's slugging...
...The political explosion set off last week by the withdrawal of Gen...
...Queried by Kent Cooper, executive director of the Associated Press, for his views on the Stilwell case, Chiang cabled that President Roosevelt had given an "adequate explanation" and that he had nothing to add...
...In Italy General Mud and the extraordinary tough enemy resistance were holding Allied gains to only a few yards...
...Prospects of effective and close Chinese-American military, political, and economic cooperation are now excellent," he said...
...From a strategic point of view the most important immediate military objective in the west was the clearing of the enemy from positions dominating the roadstead to the great port of Antwerp on the Schelde Estuary in Belgium...
...that it reflected Washington's exasperation with trying to clean up a mess resulting chiefly from the high-handed methods employed by the Chungking regime to perpetuate itself...
...Pontifical as always, these newspapers took to berating the American people for allowing "the wool to be pulled .over their eyes" in regard to the true nature of the Chinese Government...
...Paying tribute to the Allied invasion of France, the Russian leader asserted that it had made possible the Red Army successes in driving the Germans from Russian soil...
...Still others charged that the Administration had bungled the whole thing very badly by overriding the authority of special emissaries sent to work out an agreement with Chiang...
...Meanwhile, American bombers ranged throughout the Philippines, blasting enemy bases and communications in a softening-up prelude to what is expected to be new landing on other Philippine islands...
...that Chiang represented the best hopes for a democratic China, and that the Communists were responsible for the rift that had weakened the opposition to the Japanese...
...After reviewing the results of the pincer strategy against Germany, Stalin said, "The task is to continue holding Germany between two fronts...
...Supplies now landed in Normandy must travel from 400 to 500 miles before they reach the front...
...He announced at the same conference that United States Ambassador to China, Clarence E. Gauss, had resigned his post...
...New wars must be made impossible...
...The resignation, the President said, has nothing to do with the Stilwell recall...
...Others declared that the blow-up stemmed primarily from Chiang Kai-shek's concern over a civil war with the Chinese Communists...
...The issue was immediately thrown into the Presidential campaign and made the subject of confused and wild charges and counter-charges...
...It was impossible to get a clear picture of what lay behind the sudden removal of a military figure generally presumed to be popular in the theater of his command...
...Meanwhile, a large section of the American press, whose editors in the past have gushed glowing praise for the "heroic achievements of democratic China," was turning on the Chungking regime with the bitterest invective it could summon...
...The rest of the Russian front was relatively quiet, including East Prussia, where the Russians had apparently .eased up on the offensive drive launched almost a fortnight ago...
...In an address commemorating the 27th anniversary of the Red revolution, Stalin declared that Germany is "on the verge of catastrophe...
...That is the key to victory...
...The port is within 50 miles of the British 2nd Army-front and 100 miles by road from the American 1st Army...
...But a firm peace is not yet secured...
...THE WAR IN REVIEW THE most optimistic view of the European war uttered by any responsible Allied spokesman in many weeks came from Marshal Josef Stalin this week after more than a month of progressively less cheerful comments by the Messrs...
...It involved only a difference in personality between Stilwell and Chiang, he said, and had nothing to do with politics or the question of supplies to China...
...If this port, captured almost intact by the Allies two months ago, can be cleared it will befit immeasurable benefit to the Allies in getting supplies to the front lines...
...Roosevelt and Churchill...
...American forces were compelled to blow up their most advanced air bases in China as Japanese troops closed in Kweilin...
Vol. 8 • November 1944 • No. 46
