NON-STOP AIR BLITZ JOLTS EUROPE
Allied fliers pound Berlin and Warsaw
France, Czechoslovakia hit; U.S. day raid on Germany reported
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NON-STOP AIR BLITZ JOLTS EUROPE
Blockbusters pound Naples
All Axis resistance ends in North Africa
By Virgil Pinkley, United Press staff writer
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Churchill says –
Many drives to crush Axis being mapped
Armies in Britain will battle on continent, Premier declares
Washington (UP) –
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said today that he and President Roosevelt and their military experts are planning many future campaigns against the Axis in different parts of the world.
He said in an address to his homeland which was also broadcast in this country:
It is no good only having one march ahead laid out.
March after march must be planned as far as human eye can set.
Design and forethought must be our guides and heralds. We owe it to the fighting troops. We owe it to the vast communities we are leading out of the dark planes; we owe it to heroic Russia, to long-tormented China; we owe it to the captive and enslaved nations who beckon us on through their prison bars.
Strong armies ready
Pointing out that strong armies are assembled in Britain and that the island “is the assembly base for the United States armies of liberation coming across the broad Atlantic,” Mr. Churchill added:
But this is not the end. We must prepare for the time which is approaching and will surely come, when the bulk of these armies will have advanced across the seas into deadly grapple on the continent.
Mr. Churchill said that the planning was now being done “well ahead of the armies who are moving swiftly forward.”
His words seemed to confirm the general belief here that Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill are now formulating strategy for operations that will follow the initial invasion of Europe. They are believed to be paying particular attention to campaigns to get at the Japanese homeland.
Message to Chiang
Earlier today, he sent a message to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek assuring the Chinese leader that “the day will come” when the:
…arms of the United Nations… will surely drive the Japanese invader from the soil of China.
Mr. Churchill’s broadcast from the White House was made in honor of the third anniversary of the British Home Guard, which was formed as an answer to the threat of German invasion.
He said:
These are great days. They are like the says in Lord Chatham’s time of which it was said you had to get up very early in the morning not to miss some news of victory. Ah! But victory is no conclusion. Even final victory will open up a new and happier field of valiant endeavor.
Praises Home Guard
Most of the address was given over to praise for the work of the Home Guard, tracing their history from the dark days of 1940 when:
…we hardly dared to fire a round for practice, so great was the stringency.
But, obviously seeking to counteract any feeling of complacency despite the British Isles’ greatly-improved condition, Mr. Churchill added:
Let me assure you of this, that until Hitler and Hitlerism are beaten into unconditional surrender, the danger of invasion will never pass away.
He said that:
Just in the same way as the Home Guard render the regular forces mobile against an invader, so the Home Guard must become capable of taking a great deal of the burden of home defense on themselves and thus setting free the bulk of our trained troops for the assault on the strongholds of the enemy’s power.
U.S. sent timely succor
He expressed appreciation of the U.S. action in giving “precious and timely succor” by sending a million rifles, 1,000 field guns and ammunition for the Home Guard.
Eisenhower writes
Mr. Churchill received a message from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander-in-chief of Allied forces in Africa, promising that:
This army will continue to pound until Hitlerism has been exterminated from the earth.
Gen. Eisenhower’s message replied to congratulations he had received from Mr. Churchill.
The White House also disclosed that Mr. Churchill had conferred with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, President Edvard Beneš of Czechoslovakia, Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong and Australian Foreign Minister Herbert Evatt. These conferences were in addition to Mr. Churchill’s almost constant talks with the President and members of their respective war staffs.
House, their staff chiefs are conferring elsewhere in the capital. The White House still declined to give out the names of the American conferees.
Mr. Churchill and Lord Leathers, the British Minister of War Transport, are expected to meet soon, possibly today, with Adm. Emory S. Land, War Shipping Administrator.
Canadian to confer
Canadian Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King will joi9n the conferences for a brief period next week and it was believed possible that Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, wife of the Chinese Generalissimo, would see Mr. Churchill here.
One of the high spots of Mr. Churchill’s visit will come next Wednesday when he speaks before a joint session of Congress.
Mr. Churchill came to the United States this time by ship, with the last leg of the trip to Washington being made by train.
The White House permitted that disclosure late last night, two days after Mr. Churchill’s arrival. He was apparently on the high seas when the Allied armies smashed through to victory last Friday at Bizerte and Tunis.
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I DARE SAY —
Poppies grow in Tunisia
By Florence Fisher Parry
Blue star on a white field with a border of blood.
Yes, and gold star too.
They’ll soon be taking down the little flag with its bright blue star, and putting the other one in its place. Walk along any street, presently, and count the windows in which will hang this flag. Then you will know the real cost of this war even in victory.
But these flags with their blue stars and gold will not tell the whole story. For there is no flag to mark that other casualty, so much crueler than death: the casualty of the maimed in body and mind, the casualty of the living doomed, even now being returned to us.
Yet this is the saddest penalty of all. The costliest, the most hopeless. It cannot be computed. It grows. It never ends. Its consequences stretch drearily into the future, affecting generations. It is such a fearful prospect that the most seasoned statistician cannot brace himself to the terrible task of computing its loss to humankind.
We forget
It is a human attribute, I know. But WE FORGET. We grow indifferent. We mean to remember to be patient and compassionate and generous and helpful to the living dead who are returned to us after our wars. But we don’t. There are so many other things…
Now we are saying to each other with great earnestness: When they return, we will provide for them, they will be our first consideration. Make way for them, industry, give them back their jobs! Never mind if they have lost their old facility, never mind if the shock of combat, the dreariness of prison camp, the deadly regimented processes of war have dulled and slowed them! We will wait and be patient. We will take care of them – first.
We said this in the last war, remember? Oh, we tried – we really tried. But it didn’t work. It was found not to be “practical.” Business and industry couldn’t afford its cost to them, in efficiency.
Do you remember how it was after the last war? I do. No wonder the great epidemic of DEBUNKING overran the minds of the veterans of the war, and that they embraced the bitter thought that it had all been for nothing, nothing, and relapsed into the fatal isolation philosophy that later nearly cost democracy its life.
IT CAN’T HAPPEN this time! It must not happen again. We know now that the living casualties of the war will be many times the number returned to us in 1918. We know that hospitals will be built in ever-increasing numbers to take care of them; that the call upon our resources will be overwhelmingly great. We know that the therapy administered after the last war is as nothing compared with what it must be now, and that we must somehow provide new quick restorative measures to salvage the broken bodies and minds of the returned casualties.
New poppy fields
That is why this year’s Poppy Day is different from all that have been held in the past. The others were held in commemoration of the LAST war. This one is ushering in the NEW task that THIS war imposes upon us. It is therefore the most important Poppy Day we have ever observed. It assumes a double significance. It sends out a double call. It invites a double response. While in no way relinquishing its original task, that of providing help for the veterans of World War I, it is taking on such a prodigious new work that it challenges the imagination to its farthest reach!
Its observance must be magnificent, and shared by everyone.
So, day be bright in Saturday – tomorrow! Sun, shine! Winds, blow mild and gentle! Poppies, turn up your bright red faces to clear skies and open hearts, let the response match the valor and reminder of your brave small blossom.
For the poppies are blowing again over new graves in Africa, over hundreds of mounds covering still young bodies that yesterday throbbed with life. They have a way of sweeping over battlefields… in Flanders Field… in Tunisia… they have become the blossom of blood and valor.
So, I think they will look brighter and braver this year, on the street corners of Pittsburgh; I think they will be seen by every passing eye. It is unthinkable that anyone could pass by a poppy this year. For it is bound to remind us of the fields where it grows, under the trampling feet of Nazi prisoners, and on the new fresh mounds where fell our boys.
In Flanders Field the poppies blow…
In Tunis and Bizerte…
Buy a poppy, put it in your buttonhole. It is a drop of blood spilled for you.
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Allied fliers predict –
Power of Nazi Air Force to be wrecked this year
During last days in Tunisia, Germans made few sneak raids, nothing more
By Edward W. Beattie, United Press staff writer
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Capt. Rosendahl to head airship training program
Washington (UP) –
A few hours after he was nominated by President Roosevelt to be a rear admiral, the Navy today designated Capt. Charles E. Rosendahl, famed lighter-than-air craft expert, to head a new training command for airship personnel.
Capt. Rosendahl, 51, will have his headquarters at NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey, to which he was first assigned as a lieutenant 30 years ago.
The new command will be inaugurated May 15. The Navy said its establishment “emphasizes the importance of the airship in the rapidly-growing U.S. Navy Air Program.” It is expected that the command will stress the training of personnel for blimps to be used in the anti-submarine campaign.
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