THE WAR IN REVIEW

...THE WAR IN REVIEW THE HOPE for Allied unity, which emerged from the Moscow and Teheran conferences, was waning this week at an alarming rate as bitterness over the Russo-Polish boundary dispute grew more intense and a new and ominous political development—a virtual accusation on the part of the Kremlin that Britain was conducting separate peace> negotiations with Germany —hit the front pages of the world's newspapers...

...Meanwhile, the military fronts remained about the same as last week...

...Omar N. Bradley, who lead the American drive on Bizerte in the Tunisian campaign, would be senior field commander of American armies in the European theater...

...In the air, British and American fliers completed another week of intense activity, engaging in the greatest air battle the world has ever seen in a daylight raid on the industrial section in northwestern Germany...

...It is understood the meeting did not remain without results...

...Poland Offers Mediation This line was drawn by Lord Curzon, British Foreign Secretary, in 1919...

...Attempting to cushion the shock of this loss, Gen...

...Fundamentally," he said, "public opinion wins wars...

...Nazi reports dealing with this new drive declared that the Russians were ready to throw a million men into an all-out drive...

...The conference, held in North Afri-ca, was said to have established a basis for the arming of de Gaulle supporters in France and resulted in agreements concerning the government of liberated French territories, two issues about which de Gaulle has been stirring up considerable controversy of late...

...De Gaulle And Churchill Confer For some reason, Moscow interpreted this reply as a rejection of its offer and in a bristling statement asserted that it could not "enter into official negotiations with a government with which diplomatic relations have been interrupted...

...The meeting," Pravda said, "had the aim of finding out the conditions of a separate peace with the Germans...

...Enemy-forces blocking the advance of Australian and American troops were undergoing some of the most intensive air bombardment yet carried out in those areas...

...commander of the Army Air Force, spoke of the great damage done to German plane factories...

...Sixty American bombers were lost, and 152 enemy planes were reported shot down...

...Last week the Russians shrewdly advised the Poles that they would support their claims against German territory in return for settlement of the eastern boundary dispute on Russian terms...

...The Poles invited Britain and the United States to undertake the mediation and to assist in reestablishing diplomatic relations between Poland and Russia...

...I take it that you are just as anxious as I am to win this war and get it done so we can all go fishing...

...Further to the south Red Army units were desperately attempting to cross the Bug River...

...It was rejected by the Poles in 1920 when they won new territory to the eastward in war against Russia...

...On the brighter side of the European political picture this week was the report that Prime Minister Churchill had conferred with the temperamental French leader, Gen...

...Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, taking over his new duties, issued a statement in which he broadly hinted that an attack on the continent from the west would be accompanied by an offensive against southern Europe, probably France...

...It was announced from London that Lt...

...Dwight Eisenhower had arrived in England to take over active duty in preparing for the smash against Hitler's European fortress...

...Washington has buzzed for weeks with reports of how Stalin snubbed Churchill at Teheran...

...Extensive bombing missions were used also against enemy shipping and at mid-week there were reports that serious losses had been inflicted on the Japanese shipping facilities...

...His successor in the Mediterranean, Gen...

...In the north a new offensive was reported smashing toward the Latvian border...

...The establishment of that boundary would deprive Poland of about two-fifths of its people and one-third of its pre-war population and would thus remove her from its former position as a power unless she were compensated for her losses by getting large chunks of Germany...

...Reporting on their most recent raids in the Marshall Islands, Navy air units declared Japanese interception to be the strongest encountered since the steady bombing of these islands began several weeks ago...

...To the Moscow offer to establish the border on the Curzon line, the Polish government-in-exile replied that it was willing to have the dispute mediated on that basis...

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...Charles de Gaulle, and had reached an agreement on British-French cooperation...

...His exact status was not quite clear, but most correspondents agreed that he would lead the assault of American soldiers against the continent...

...The arbitrary manner in which the Kremlin treated this effort at mediation, as well as others, was certain, according to impartial observers, to alienate even those people who felt that Russian claims to eastern Poland were largely justified...

...In his first press conference after arriving in London Eisenhower promised newsmen a "total invasion" and called upon correspondents to cooperate with him in handling the news...

...The line roughly approximates the border set by the Russians and Germans in the notorious pact following the defeat of Poland in 1939...

...Coming at a time when the Polish controversy had reached a critical stage, the charge that British agents were meeting with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, printed in the official Communist publication, Pravda, astounded and puzzled observers who viewed it as another excellent opportunity for the Germans to further their relentless campaign to create disunity among the Allies...

...Eisenhower In England In Italy, American forces under Gen...

...The enigmatic and arrogant attitude of Moscow toward all efforts to bring the Polish border dispute to negotiation was also causing a great deal of alarm among those who recognized the urgency of political unity in the war...

...The Kremlin Cools Off Although the report was emphatically denied by the British, the incident had serious implications...

...Meanwhile, it was announced that Gen...

...The report which Pravda published under the heading "Rumors From Cairo" declared that information of the German-British meeting in a seacoast city of the Pyrenees peninsula came from "reliable Greek and Yugoslav sources...

...In the Pacific Gen...

...Mark Clark, were inching ahead in the push for Rome, paying a high price in American lives for every advance...

...Russian forces were pushing ahead on the Central front, knifing deeper into "old" Poland...

...Douglas Mac Arthur's jungle fighters were marking up new gains in fierce fighting New York Times for positions in New Britain and New Guinea...

...During the week Moscow indicated that it was willing to establish the Polish frontier along the much-discussed Curzon line...

...As the official organ of the Russian Communist Party, Pravda is known to reflect the trend of official opinion in the Kremlin, and it could not possibly have published so strife-provoking a report without official approval from Josef Stalin, or the dictator's highest placed aides...

...His estimate, however, was termed "over-optimistic" by Hanson Baldwin, military expert of the New York Times...

...The publication of the rumor was widely interpreted as indicating a marked cooling off in Soviet feeling toward the British...

...Japanese air power was also more active than usual...

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...Some of the bloodiest battles of the war will be fought on this northern front, Berlin asserted...

...The Pravda incident indicated also that Nazi home morale was getting its greatest boost from the weakness of Allied diplomacy rather than from the Administration-sponsored canard that American labor troubles were encouraging the Axis to continue its fight...