THE WAR IN REVIEW
THE WAR IN REVIEW AMERICAN troops continued this week the job of cleaning up pockets of enemy resistance on the newly conquered island outposts to the Japanese homelands, as the world waited...
...Both groups are agreed that Moslems and Hindus should have equal representation on the council, however, and the difference seemed to be of a technical nature that could soon be ironed out...
...It was accomplished, he said, with total losses in dead, wounded, captured, and missing of 15,178 American troops...
...The complete liberation of the largest Philippine island involved "one of the most savage and bitterly fought campaigns in American history," the Pacific army chief said...
...Molotov said that the treaty returned to the fatherland people who had been separated from it for 1,000 years...
...Australians in Borneo smashed ahead, knocking enemy garrisons out of many of their strategic, positions...
...Indiana Republican, told reporters that he had been reliably informed that Japan had made peace offers "which would be wholly acceptable to me personally...
...Indian Conference Strikes Snare The conference of Indian leaders, called by British Viceroy Wavell to consider proposals for broadening Indian representation on the governing executive council, stalled on one of the nation's knottiest problems...
...THE WAR IN REVIEW AMERICAN troops continued this week the job of cleaning up pockets of enemy resistance on the newly conquered island outposts to the Japanese homelands, as the world waited expectantly for the next big blow to fall...
...The clean-up job in Okinawa was proceeding without notable difficulty and Gen...
...Czech officials announced that there had been no disagreement over the ceding of the territory and that the people had asked to be incorporated into Russia since the end of the last war but were prevented from such a course by the intervening Polish territory...
...The landings were accomplished with light losses after the most intensive pre-invasion bombardment of the Southwest Pacific campaign...
...Known as Ruthenia, the sector formerly adjoined Poland and was grabbed by Hungary in the break-up of the Czech republic under German pressure in 1939...
...If they desire to remain Czechs they will be moved into Czechoslovakia and be paid for whatever property they are unable to take with them...
...Douglas MacArthur announced that the campaign for northern Luzon in the Philippines had ended...
...He refused to state what the terms were, but added: "If the Japanese promised to give up all territory they have conquered including Manchuria, wouldn't that be all right...
...At week's end Australian veterans smashed ashore for a new landing on Borneo, driving into Balikpapan...
...The great majority of them, according to reports, were adamantly opposed to returning to Poland under the coalition regime...
...It was said that they were preparing to "go underground" to escape being sent back...
...About 60,000 troops in Italy were strongly opposed to returning to their homeland...
...The dispute stems from India's age-old religious differences...
...A treaty signed in the Kremlin by Czech Prime Minister Zdenek Fierling and Foreign Commissar Molotov transferred the area to Russia...
...This is the second time in the past few weeks that Grew has denied reports of enemy peace offers...
...Prime Minister Churchill has indicated that some of them will be offered citizenship in the United Kingdom...
...Reports of Tokyo peace overtures persisted...
...Borneo's great oil port...
...It was Britain and America's problem to decide what could be done with the Poles in uniform...
...Capehart's report was denied by Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew, who declared that the U. S. Government has received no Japanese peace offer, either through official or unofficial channels...
...The enemy sustained losses of 113,55)3 known dead...
...The Congress Party, although made up mainly of.Hindus but claiming to represent all of India, could not agree with the Moslem League's contention that it alone should designate the Moslem members of the council...
...The announcement declared that the area "is by mutual agreement and the desire of its peoples returned to the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic...
...The same terms will be extended to Ukran-ians or Russians living in Slovakia...
...This would mean that the financial support which has been given to the Polish government-in-exile would be withdrawn, leaving that group's armed forces without a government and without a country...
...The question of citizenship will be left up to the inhabitants of the territory...
...The attack against the badly-harassed Japanese continued at widely scattered points in the Pacific theater...
...Czechs Cede Ruthenia To Reds Europe's map continued to undergo alterations as Russia annexed 4,871 square miles of eastern Czechoslovakia...
...New Questions About Poland It was evident that the establishment of the new Polish provisional government with a wider representation from Polish political groups had by no means brought an end to the vexatious Polish question...
...Homer Capehart...
...All indications pointed to an early recognition of the new government by Great Britain and the United States as well as by other Phiropean governments...
...The Moslem League and the Congress Party, India's 2 most powerful political organizations, found themselves in open disagreement on distribution of seats on the proposed new executive council...
Vol. 9 • July 1945 • No. 28
