THE WAR IN REVIEW
THE WAR IN REVIEW THE bitter struggle for Okinawa dragged toward a bloody end this week as American troops, using every device known in modern warfare, sought desperately to blast the remnants of...
...The new offer, hailed by some papers as a "sweeping new deal for India" and "a bid to end political strife," is actually nothing more than the offer made by Sir Stafford Cripps in 1942 and turned down by the Indians...
...P-i(nin Makes Another Offer The British Government announced that it had formulated a new policy toward India in an official white paper which broke a 3-year silence on the explosive issue of Indian self rule...
...Meeting with representatives of the Big 3, Polish leaders from London and from inside Poland sat down to try for a solution to one of the most troublesome problems in Europe...
...David Lawrence, a syndicated columnist with good sources of information, eharged that the failure to make new landings behind the enemy lines had prolonged the battle...
...The 14-member council now has 11 Indian representatives...
...Ribbentrop Captured Biggest catch of the week in the continuing roundup of German war prisoners was suave, slick Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's Foreign Minister...
...Half of this amount, Kuh quoted an American source as saying, would go to Russia under Stalin's plan...
...Four members of the Russian-supported Polish regime, former Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk and 2 others from London, and 3 representatives of democratic groups inside Poland not affiliated with the provisional government participated in the meeting...
...Nimitz declared that it was impossible to make landings without unwarranted losses on any of the beaches of Okinawa except those where the landings had originally been made...
...Canada's progressive party, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, ran a poor third in the election, but picked up 16 new seats in the agricultural western provinces where they appeared to be most strong...
...Referring to Hitler's order to turn a jet fighter plane into a bomber, Goering told American newsmen that "in your aerial warfare you had a great ally—in the fuehrer...
...Although there was considerable enthusiasm at the prospect that the conference might break the deadlock and permit an orderly working out of European reconstruction problems, seasoned observers in London and Washington were most cautious in expressing any opinions that such hopeful developments were in the making...
...Prime Minister Churchill declined, he said, to participate in the discussion since his reparations expert had been killed in an airplane accident on the way to the conference...
...In a conciliatory move toward the restive millions of the great sub-continent over which Britain has ruled for years, the British freed several leaders of India's powerful Congress Party, who have been imprisoned since the outbreak of war in the Pacific...
...King Wins In Canada Prime Minister W. L. MacKenzie King's Liberal Party in Canada slid back into power by a narrow margin in a general election which tested his party's anti-conscriptionist policy...
...Under the new plan Indians would hold all positions except the portfolio of war, which would continue to be held by Gen...
...He said that he was asked by the late President to approach Hitler to try and arrange a meeting...
...The trials, it was announced, would be open to the public and the press...
...Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., commander of U. S. forces, was killed in action...
...This is not a clear majority but the party is expected to get the support of 8 Independent Liberals to assure an overall majority...
...Another London Pole also refused to attend...
...The power of veto would still rest in the hands of Viceroy Sir Archibald Wavel...
...Asked if Hitler were dead, he replied, "I am certain he is but, of course, I might be wrong...
...He told newspapermen that Hitler had lost the war because of his stubborn refusal to follow advice...
...Another prominent German, Prince Louis Ferdinand Hohenzollern, grandson of the last kaiser, made news when he permitted Louis P. Lochner to cable his story of an attempt to arrange a meeting of Hitler and President Roosevelt in 1938...
...One of the leaders of the Polish Peasant Party within Poland refused to attend the conference, giving illness as his reason...
...Hermann Goering was in the news again too...
...They were decisively whipped in the industrial areas of the east...
...As the representatives met, the Soviet government began the trial of the 16 Polish leaders who had been arrested some weeks ago for alleged "terroristic acts of diversion" behind Red Army lines...
...At mid-week, Moscow announced that the secretary of the Military Collegium of Russia's Supreme Court claimed that 15 of the accused 16 had "confessed" total or partial guilt to charges of engaging in terroristic and propaganda activities behind the Red Army lines...
...Mikolajczyk, it was reported, would ask that at least 15 of the 16 be freed...
...The Allied success was due to America's tremendous airpower, he said...
...Ribbentrop and Hitler ignored him, he declared...
...He asserted that the fate of the thousands of political prisoners now in India's jails would be left to any government growing out of a conference he is to hold soon with Indian leaders to discuss the new proposals...
...Stalin Seeks Reparations Frederick Kuh, able chief of the Chicago Sun's London bureau, reported that Premier Stalin has proposed to the Allies that German reparations to be paid to the Allies be put at $20,000,000,000...
...The Russians charged that the Poles, many of whom Britain thought should be included in a new, democratic Polish government, had in their possession illegal radio transmitters...
...Roosevelt, who was a personal friend of the German Prince, asked for the meeting in an effort to avert war...
...He asserted that the campaign had not been "bungled" and was not a "fiasco...
...Admiral Chester Nimitz replied to Lawrence's charge in a sizzling statement that such criticisms are not "in the best interests of the United States...
...Sir Claude Auchinleek...
...It provides that the Indians shall have 2 more representatives on the Viceroy's council...
...Conference On Poland The deadlock on the Polish issue arising out of Russia's apparent flouting of the Yalta agreement concerning the broadening of the Lublin government reached conference stage last week after months of squabbling...
...THE WAR IN REVIEW THE bitter struggle for Okinawa dragged toward a bloody end this week as American troops, using every device known in modern warfare, sought desperately to blast the remnants of the fanatic Japanese defenders out of their caves, foxholes, and pill-boxes in which they are making their final suicidal stand on the narrow southern tip of the island...
...Captured in Hamburg in the apartment of an attractive divorcee, Ribbentrop, like many of the other Nazi leaders, had on his person a vial of poison...
...In a radio broadcast to the Indian people, Wavel declared that the enlarged membership on the council was designed "to ease the present political situation and advance India toward the goal of full self government...
...The proposal, he said, was first offered at the Yalta conference and had been accepted by President Roosevelt "as a reasonable basis for discussion...
...The Liberals won 118 of the 245 seats in the Canadian Parliament, a drop from the 160 they held previous to the election...
...The remainder would be distributed to other Allied countries suffering damages at the hands of the Germans...
...At mid-week victory was reported in sight even as Lt...
...One of the most difficult and longest campaigns of the Pacific war, Okinawa was the center of controversy over tactics employed to take the island...
...The Polish government-in-exile refused to recognize the authority of the group to decide the Polish problem, branding it an outright concession to Moscow and stating that "never, never will our people recognize this agreement...
...The decision to call Polish leaders to Moscow to discuss the question was said to be the result of the efforts of Harry Hopkins, who recently flew to Moscow as a special representative of President Truman...
Vol. 9 • June 1945 • No. 26
