THE WAR IN REVIEW
THE WAR IN REVIEW JAPANESE forces this week continued to fight with fanatical stubbornness, taking a heavy toll of American lives for every yard of ground yielded on the shell-gutted tip of Okinawa...
...Matching the determined stand being made by ground forces, the Japanese air arm threw strong support into the fight in a smashing attack on U. S. naval units...
...Record armadas of the giant B-29s were breaching the homeland defenses at will, dropping ton after ton of high explosives and fire bombs into the heart of the city...
...He himself will stand for re-election to Commons from a district just out of London...
...His decision to withdraw from southern Austria was interpreted as a conciliatory gesture and as indicative of willingness to cooperate in a settlement without the necessity of resorting to arms to settle the dispute, but the basic issues seemed still unresolved...
...Shrewd political manipulator that he is, Churchill completely outsmarted the Laborites by arranging the election date for July 5, thus assuring him of the opportunity to exploit his tremendous advantage as a victorious war leader...
...Tension In The Middle East A controversy which reached crisis proportions developed in the Middle East this week when French troops fired on throngs of civilians in Lebanon and Syria...
...The Flensburg government, which was headed by Hitler's heir, Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, and which has been used by the Allies since the surrender for administrative purposes, was dissolved, putting the German people under the direct authority of Allied occupation authorities...
...While being searched by Allied officials Himmler crunched a small vial of poison hidden in his mouth, swallowed it, and died a short time after...
...Premier Suzuki was forced to admit that Tokyo was in ruins and would have to be rebuilt from the bottom up...
...Although there are some minor points of foreign policy that will be issues in the campaign, the biggest one will rest on domestic policy, with the Labor Party taking a strong stand for socialization and the Conservatives pledged to limited controls and the free enterprise system...
...They demanded an end to the truce and an election in the Autumn...
...Only the 60,000 citizens of that district will have the opportunity of voting for or against him personally...
...Unlike the United States, where the chief executive is elected by the direct vote of the people, Churchill will have to depend on his party winning a majority of the 640 contested seats in the House of Commons if he is to be returned to power...
...Doenitz and other members of the rump government were placed under arrest to await trial as war criminals...
...Arab leaders charged that French troops were terrorizing the population as a result of conflicts which have grown out of the deadlock over the independence • of Syria and Lebanon, demanded by the natives but refused by the de Gaulle regime in Paris...
...THE WAR IN REVIEW JAPANESE forces this week continued to fight with fanatical stubbornness, taking a heavy toll of American lives for every yard of ground yielded on the shell-gutted tip of Okinawa Island where they fought a last-ditch stand...
...Outdoor meetings in recently liberated north Italy are still banned by AMG rules...
...Fires, it was reported, had swept the city, burning the Emperor's palace and worker's homes with great impartiality...
...Biggest catch in the hunt for war criminals, however, was Heinrich Himmler, who as head of the Gestapo was a symbol of the most brutal element of Nazism...
...Britain Faces An Election Biggest political news to come from Europe was the announcement that Britain would have its first general election in 10 years...
...Trieste Still A Question Although there was some indication that the tension rising out of the Allied challenge to Marshal Tito's occupation of the Italian seaport of Trieste had eased up, there were no definite signs that the Yugoslav Communist would yield to demands that he withdraw his forces...
...At mid-week Chungking announced the recapture of the big treaty port of Yung-ning [Nanning] in China's "deep South" and the cutting of Japan's vital life-line to Indo China and Singapore...
...Assuming that Hitler and Goebbels are dead, Himmler's death leaves only one top-rung Nazi yet unaccounted for— Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's Foreign Minister...
...The eruption came when the Labor Party refused to go along with the coalition arrangement for the duration of the war with Japan...
...Admiral Chester Nimitz announced that 11 American vessels had suffered damage, but that 166 enemy planes had been destroyed...
...Prime Minister Churchill, leader of the Conservatives, accepted the challenge to his leadership, asked the King to dissolve Parliament...
...Japanese home defenses, however, were unable to cope with the power of America's long-range bombing squadrons...
...On the Asiatic mainland enemy troops were reported in serious trouble as the Chinese pushed forward in a drive to the coast...
...Chungking reported that the Japanese were preparing to evacuate Hong Kong and Canton to avoid entrapment...
...As rumors continued to circulate in this country that Tokyo was making peace overtures, the Foreign Economic Administration announced that Japan still has the capacity to wage a long war...
...The suicidal resistance of the defenders had already made of the battle of Okinawa one of the toughest engagements thus far in the Pacific war...
...Allied Control In Reich In Germany, the Allied control commissions settled down to full authority...
...As American troops pressed on through the ruins of Naha, the island's capital city, savage fighting flared all along the 7-mile line spanning the island...
...He was released shortly after when a political crisis threatened and he offered apologies to the Allied Military Government...
...The decision to hold an election came abruptly after a flare-up between the country's 2 major parties, Conservative and Labor...
...Arrest In Italy In Italy, Pietro Nenni, leader of the Socialist Party and prominently mentioned candidate for Premier, was arrested by British authorities for making an outdoor address to workers in Milan...
Vol. 9 • June 1945 • No. 23
