THE WAR IN REVIEW
THE WAR IN REVIEW A POSSIBLE clue to the future course of American onensive in the Pacific came this week from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who told his people on the 8th anniversary of China's...
...The question was whether these zones should be supplied with food coming from the outlying districts of Berlin on which the city has always depended for its supply...
...These districts are under Russian control...
...At midweek the Japanese were moving great masses of their people out of the paths of the swarming Yankee planes...
...MacArthur announced that the campaign to liberate those islands had been completed with a total loss to the Japanese of 450,000 men since last October when the island of Leyte was invaded...
...In Washington, the envoy representing the London Poles called in newsmen to say his farewell...
...It was not clear how the London group hoped to continue to hold the armed forces together since their financial support would now come directly from Britain rather than through the Arciszewski government...
...Someday answers to these questions will have to be found if justice is to survive," he said...
...The attitude of the exiled Polish government implied a challenge to the Big 3 plan of allowing Poles in the armed forces a choice of returning home or remaining under the British flag...
...A CHAPTER ENDS As far as formal diplomatic relations are concerned, the books were closed last week on the Polish govern-ment-in-exile, a government organized in London after the Nazi conquest of Poland in the early days of the war...
...The mounting fury of the attack and likelihood of invasion brought an indirect peace feeler from Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, one of the Japanese envoys in Washington negotiating "peace" at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack...
...The issue, if not settled beforehand, is expected to go to the Big 3 conference for solution...
...In announcing the action, President Truman said that the Warsaw Government had promised to abide by the decisions reached at the Yalta Conference and that "free and unfettered" elections baaed on universal suffrage and the secret ballot would be granted to the Polish people in order that a government representative of the people's wishes can be formed...
...The London group, however, served notice that it would refuse to surrender its authority until a new government is formed in a free election on "free Polish soil...
...After recognizing the London regime since March of 1941, the United States joined Great Britain in granting recognition to the newly formed, Russian-inspired Provisional Government of National Unity...
...As he spoke, American airpower was winding up more than a month of iteady bombing of Japanese cities...
...Poland, he said, is "but a home on wheels to be pushed eastward or westward as may suit the imperialist aims of either of its mighty neighbors...
...Anglo-American experts maintained that it would be impractical to truck in supplies from hundreds of miles away...
...The Reds, who are encouraging anti-fascist political parties to engage in political activity and have re-established trade unions, are critical of American and British policy which does not allow maximum participation of Germans in building a new Germany...
...This group called upon the 250,000 men of the Polish armed forces to remain loyal to,the exile government...
...However, the Russians are not showing the same liberality where reparations are concerned...
...POLITICAL DISPUTES WITH RUSSIA On the eve of the first Big 3 conference since Yalta the Allies found themselves locked in a serious dispute over the zones of occupation in Berlin, which American and British troops entered this week...
...The deadlock, which had become so grave that American and British authorities were considering withdrawing from the city, arose over the desire of the Russians to control the food and fuel supply in the American and British zones...
...Small and medium bombers and fighter planes were joining in the attacks as the air bases on Okinawa were put into use...
...How, he asked, can Poland explain to her "indomitable fighters" that "after the United Nations victory, the principles in defense of which they fought would not be applied to them...
...In restrained but stinging language, he referred to the Warsaw Government as a "so-called" government and said that Russia was imposing on Poland "a government and a political, social, and economic system alien to her...
...In Borneo Australian troops were pushing steadily ahead against dwindling resistance and in the Philippines Gen...
...In a talk which was interpreted as a plea for the United States to abandon its Unconditional Surrender terms, Nomura said, "So long as the enemy asks for Japan's Unconditional Surrender, she will have to shed blood proportionate to the time and intensity of each battle...
...hiang's statement, which also inelud-ed mention that Chinese troops would near the brunt of the fighting on the mainland, set at rest speculation in this country over whether our armies would strike at the China coast or the Japanese homeland...
...Some of the plants were reported to be American owned...
...THE WAR IN REVIEW A POSSIBLE clue to the future course of American onensive in the Pacific came this week from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who told his people on the 8th anniversary of China's war with Japan that "we anticipate an Allied landing on Japan...
...Reports this week indicated that the Soviets were stripping industrial plants in their zone of occupation bare of machinery...
...RUSSIANS CRITICAL OF ALLIED POLICY Meanwhile, Moscow was chiding her Allies for the harsh policy toward the German people...
Vol. 9 • July 1945 • No. 29
