THE WAR IN REVIEW
THE WAR IN REVIEW AMERICAN troops this week stood poised in the Pacific, ready to follow up the victory which finally came to them on Okinawa. Where the next blow would be struck was known, of...
...On the Chinese mainland the enemy was being pressed hard at Liuchow and was reported to be fleeing northward before advancing Chinese troops 175 miles south of Shanghai...
...He conceded, however, that parity between the Congress Party and the Moslem League would be a fair adjustment...
...Soviet spokesmen also charged that the defendants were ordered to assist in the building up of a western bloc of anti-Soviet nations...
...The new government was announced by the Allies with London and Washington indicating that provisional approval would be given...
...Great Britain was charged with complicity in this conspiracy...
...The Soviet prosecutor placed the blame on the Polish government-in-exile, asserting that the defendants were carrying out the orders of that government...
...Charging that the new government is Communist dominated, the London government said that the coalition marks "one more step down the road to the complete liquidation of the independence of Poland...
...Others believed that the campaign was worth the effort...
...It was charged that the Indian states, representing one-fourth of the total population, would be ignored...
...Italy Gels New Government A new all-party cabinet was formed in Italy with Eerruccio Parri...
...Simon Bolivar Buck-ner who fell in battle last week...
...Bonislaw Okulicki, commander of the Polish underground army, received the heaviest sentence...
...MacArthur to command the 10th Army in the fighting ahead...
...Where the next blow would be struck was known, of course, only to the high command...
...Polish Solution...
...Twelve of the defendants were found guilty and sentenced to serve prison terms ranging from 10 years to 4 months...
...Meanwhile, mopping up maneuvers continued on Okinawa and in the Philippines...
...Recognition of such a government, formed in violation of all laws of the allied Polish republic, would be merely an attempt to justify in the eyes of the world the imposition of a dictatorship of a foreign-sponsored Communist Party in Poland...
...The fall of the island, after almost 3 months of the bitterest fighting in the Pacific war, had lowered the bars on a furious debate back at home...
...While the debate went on, the men in the field prepared for new blows...
...Indians Balk At British Plans In India the British proposal for enlarged Indian representation in the government was meeting with objections from Indian leaders...
...British officials pronounced the charge "absurd...
...Polish Leaders Convicted The trial of 16 Polish leaders for alleged "terroristic and diversionary" activities behind the lines of the Red Army concluded in Moscow...
...We Socialists," the party statement read, "will continue to strug-gle so that the working class will assume in the political leadership of the country the place that it deserves...
...The group, which was not invited to participate in the conference and would have no representative in the new government, issued a bitterly critical statement on the settlement...
...Joseph Stilwell was appointed by Gen...
...Secondary cities were next on the list for the air armadas...
...The end of the San Francisco Conference (See page 3) was matched by the conclusion of another conference in Moscow...
...Another objection to the British plan was raised when members of the Congress Party pointed out that the plan called only for participation by representatives of British India...
...former Partisan leader, as Prime Minister...
...They cited the 50,000 American casualties, 12,000 of which gave their lives...
...He succeeded Gen...
...The new cabinet is composed of 20 men each party in the Committee for National Liberation having a minimum of posts...
...It was understood that there would be free elections in Poland with universal suffrage to give the people of that unfortunate country a voice in the selection of their rulers...
...Air raids over the Japanese homeland continued on a round-the-clock schedule...
...However incomplete the settlement, the conferees had arrived at an agreement to broaden the present Moscow-inspired Lublin group in control of Poland...
...It was understood that Wincenty Witos, titular head of the Peasant Party in Poland, would also be invited to participate...
...There were those who thought the campaign had been too costly...
...See Commander Seely below...
...It was the conference of Polish leaders to settle the vexing problem of the Polish government...
...Gandhi, who declined to participate in a conference considering the British proposal, declared that the Congress Party represents all classes of Indians who believe in independence and that representation from it should not be restricted to caste Hindus...
...Australian troops in Borneo were pushing the Japa...
...the statement said...
...It was evident that the London Poles would lose the Anglo-American recognition they have had from the beginning...
...The Socialists, although accenting positions in the new cabinet, nevertheless attacked it as no solution to the crisis facing Italy...
...The primary targets—Japan's biggest cities—were written off this week because no more bombing was considered necessary...
...The plan to give equal representation to caste Hindus and Moslems on the executive council drew fire from Mohandas K. Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, leaders of India's powerful All Indian Congress Party...
...There was speculation that the campaign against Borneo would be intensified, that an expedition would move to the China coast, that the main blow would fall soon at the Japanese home islands...
...He denied that he had participated in carrying out terror and acts of diversion and said that his only mistake "was my distrust of the Soviet Union...
...nese back from some of that country's richest oil fields...
...It was predicted that Stanislaw Miko-lajczyk, former premier of the exile government in London, would have a place in the cabinet and that Edouard Osubka-Morawski, present Prime Minister of the Soviet-sponsored Warsaw group, would retain his position...
Vol. 9 • July 1945 • No. 27
