THE WAR IN REVIEW
THE WAR IN REVIEW THE world has not heard Adolf Hitler's shrieking voice for more than four months—since, in fact, it came through in a strange broadcast in the early morning hours after the...
...Germans were being told of a frightful new weapon, V-2, an explosive-carrying rocket that plummets to earth from 70 miles up at a speed of a 1,000 miles an hour—faster than sound and hence cannot be heard...
...A battle of showdown proportions was impending as Gen...
...It ' is high time," said Churchill in emphasizing the need for a new meeting...
...George Patton's Third Army broke a two-months lull on the sector between Nancy and Metz, effected six crossings of the Seille River, and moved to close a great pincers around the fortress city of Metz...
...Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin—would meet soon f%r their first get-together since Teheran a year ago...
...The Struggle For Leyte Bitter fighting in the Pacific claimed much American attention during the past week...
...Dispatches from London reported that the Polish Government-in-Exile has refused to accept the settlement of its eastern boundary der manded by Stalin and approved by Churchill without an agreement embodying other points in its dispute with the Soviet Union...
...de Gaulle's regime...
...The Chinese high command admitted ' this week that the Nipponese had broken into Kweilin, defense pivot for southeast China, and Liuchow, site of1 an American air base...
...On Leyte Island, in the Philippines, Gen...
...As long as there is breath left in me, my body and soul will...
...American warplanes and P-T boats blasted transports- and escorting destroyers, taking a toll of 19 destroyers-and 11 transports, but the stark fact that the Nipponese had landed strong reinforcements in spite of these punishing losses indicated that American forces will have a terrific battle on their hands...
...Two days after the first German announcement of this monstrous new weapon Prime Minister Winston Churchill confirmed that the V-2 rockets had been crashing in England for "the last few weeks...
...THE WAR IN REVIEW THE world has not heard Adolf Hitler's shrieking voice for more than four months—since, in fact, it came through in a strange broadcast in the early morning hours after the bombing attempt on his life July 20...
...There was no way for the outside world to judge the effectiveness of the new Nazi terror weapon...
...The result of a "cowardly capitulation" would be the compulsory extermination of the people and the destruction of the responsible men...
...Simultaneously from Moscow, London, and Washington came an announcement that France has been invited to full membership in the European Advisory Commission, Which is shaping surrender terms to be imposed on Germany, thus meeting at least a portion of de Gaulle's demand...
...and were pushing forward in the south toward important Yungning...
...Heaviest fighting on the Eastern Front during the past week was centered on the muddy plains of Hungary where the five-weeks-old Russian drive toward Germany's Danubian-"back door" was gaining new momentum...
...Last week, on the 21st anniversary of the Nazi beer hall putsch of Nov...
...V-2 Crashes Into The News Hitler referred repeatedly to Allied plans to dismember' Germany and "eliminate" the people of the Reich...
...The obvious attempt by Hitler to frighten the Germans into fighting on lest they be destroyed by the "vengeful Allies" was echoed by Dr...
...The Hitler proclamation appeared to refute, recurring reports that the Nazis were throwing out peace-feelers...
...The battle of Budapest, which was rapidly drawing to a climax this week, was interpreted by military experts as the entering wedge for a Red Army smash into southern and central Germany...
...serve one thought only: to make my people strong in defense and attacjj against this deadly danger...
...Hitler-Gpebbels talk of "victory" for German arms was largely intended, of course, to bolster home-front morale...
...12, he, was billed to make a belated anniversary address, but instead a proclamation was read in his name at Munich by Heinrich Himmler, dreaded chief of the Gestapo and com-, mander of the Reich's.home front...
...The German radio, for instance, declared that "a battle which will involve 5,000,000 men will flare up any hour in the West now...
...Bolshevist chaos and civil war will be the first result...
...Allied forces were fighting in the face of fantastic natural obstacles and stubborn German resistance, and were measuring progress in yards as they pushed slowly on toward Bologna, gateway to the Po Valley, still 87 miles away as the week began...
...Fighting in the first snowstorm of the season on its front, the Third Army averaged four miles a day and appeared to be maneuvering for strategic positions for what might well become one of the truly decisive battles of the European war...
...What the Poles want is a real showdown and an end of manipulating and maneuvering, it was said...
...In badly battered China, the Japanese were driving ahead in their feverish effort to complete consolidation of their position...
...Churchill was in Paris this week to confer with officials of Gen...
...Goebbels who warned, in a swearing-in process for the People's Storm Army, that the Allies want to "wipe the Reich off the map and divide up the German nation again into its former small powerless states...
...The prospects of such a meeting ' have been vastly improved by the results of the Presidential election in the United States for which we waited so breathlessly on Tuesday last...
...Death awaits any German who opposes the decision for "a |ast ditch struggle, the proclamation warned...
...Action In Europe Some of the fiercest fighting of the war was raging on the Western Front this week as Lt...
...Meanwhile, the troublesome Polish problem appeared to be as far from solution as ever...
...Surrender, the manifesto by Hitler declared, would not be a "cheap escape...
...Some reports indicated the Poles are reconciled to losing much of their eastern territory to Russia, but demand territorial compensation in the west, elimination of the Polish National Liberation Committee in Russia, and a general "hands-off policy" by other countries in Poland's internal affairs...
...Tomoyuki Yamashita, the new Japanese commander in the Philippines, succeeded in landing reinforcements, perhaps some.50,000 men, despite tremendous losses...
...Three days later, Sunday, Nov...
...Hitler's 16-weeks silence was explained by the assertion that he was preparing "measures necessary for the final victorious carrying out of the war...
...Never shall we lay down our arms trusting an enemy who knows no mercy once we are defenseless...
...De Gaulle had let it be known earlier in the week that he was unwilling to • commit France to enter any major agreements until guaranteed a status equal to Britain's as a power on the continent...
...Whoever attempts to sow doubts among others, -whoever lifts a sword or throws a bomb against Germany, will be mercilessly and ruthlessly destroyed...
...There was little to report this week on the war in Italy...
...Japanese capture of Yungning would mean that the enemy would * have only 105 miles to go in order to form a link with his forces in Indo-China—50 miles each way if the forces converged...
...Never, he said, would there be "a repetition of the last armistice...
...Douglas MacArthur's forces drove slowly forward through jungles and mountains and torrential tropical rains despite stiffening Japanese resistance...
...8-9, 1923, he made no speech to Germany or the world, thus giving wings to a new flight of rumors, all totally unconfirmed, that he was dead, deranged, or seriously ill...
...Berlin claims that the use of V-2, as well as V-l, the self-propelled robot which made its appearance last Spring, has raised havoc with harbor installations at Antwerp, the "Dutch city on which Allied leadership has been counting heavily as a supply port for Allied armies which are now standing poised for decisive action in Western Europe...
...Big Three Meeting Expected The war's political developments were highlighted ' this week by growing indications that the Big Three...
...The second phase opens with the handing over of the so-called war criminals, of valuable men, and will be ended by unending columns of human beings who set out along the road to Siberia to die there as the victims of the weakness of their leaders...
Vol. 8 • November 1944 • No. 47
