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Reading Eagle (November 2, 1944)
Pegler: Old hag
By Westbrook Pegler
New York –
The party is beginning to get rough up in Fairfield County, Connecticut, where Clare Boothe Luce, a Republican, of course, and a warty, shapeless old hag with pool-table legs and a face that would clabber milk a mile away, is running for reelection to Congress. I toss in this little dash of descriptive matter about Mrs. Luce because her campaign manager says it is unfair to her to keep on writing how good-looking she is, as this tends to suggest that she is using sex appeal on the stags and might alienate the women’s vote. These dispatches aim to be fair.
The Communists of the Political Action Committee have ganged up on the frowsy old ostrich in greater force and vehemence than they have exerted against any other nominee in the country except Tom Dewey himself, and now it has been announced that Mr. Big, in person, will make a tailboard appearance and toss off a few remarks in his Groton-Harvard cockney dialect as he passes through Bridgeport Saturday on his way to Boston.
Henry Wallace, the Johnny Appleseed of the campaign, who has been thumbing his way around the East like a mildewed bum and making a speech wherever he finds as many as two prospects, or even one, gathered in a rapt and eager throng, is scheduled to speak in 11 towns.
This personal attention from the President and the forgotten man might be attributed to a spirit of personal revenge against the poor, unsightly wench because she sometimes gives an imitation of Eleanor Roosevelt telling a humorous and comical anecdote about the time Franklin said he would like to have his shoes soled and the second butler hocked them to the cash-clot man, thinking Franklin had meant that he wanted them sold.
Just to give you an idea of the ferocity of the Communist campaign, Clifton Fadiman, sometimes known as Killer Fadiman, the bull butterfly of the literary teas, made an oration the other night in which he dropped an ominous hint that if the Republicans should win the election, we would have a civil war. He did not say what part he would take in that civil war, but it appears that that is the one thing he has been saving for himself since the age of 32, when he was a savage, but vicarious anti-Fascist in the Spanish thing, and down to now in the present scuffle with Adolf Hitler, whom he fearlessly denounces, however.
The Killer also accused Mrs. Luce of bad manners and said “she is fresh from the foxholes of Park Avenue,” a remark which elicited from her the inquiry, “And where is your foxhole?” which was irrelevant, of course.
When she isn’t prowling around the streets, scaring babies and bulldogs with that mug of hers, Mrs. Luce takes trips to the war, in person, and she has invited the Killer to come on up some time and swap reminiscences about foxholes under battle conditions. She was in Belgium and France during the blitz and made two trips to the Orient, where she scared several Japanese divisions to death by pushing her face up out of the trenches.
Another of the commandoes selected for this shock operation by the Communist-New Deal PAC axis is old Dorothy Thompson, who has been fading away as a pundit ever since 1940, when she thought it would be a good idea not to bother to hold a presidential election. Mrs. T. had lived a long term in Germany and now you find her mostly in the papers which endorse Roosevelt’s own Hitlerian innovations,
She and the hag used to pull hair and kick and scream in a refined way a few years back, but Luce finally brushed her off, probably figuring that she was just wasting her time, and Thompson is now in there again trying to renew it, which might help the syndicate sales, although hardly much.
Well, this will give you an idea of the importance of this particular congressional district to the New Deal and their Communists. The thing is personal with the Roosevelts and deadly with the Communists because the dame insists that we ought to deal with Stalin as equals and establish a peace of free, independent European nations, not satellites of Moscow. On labor and war measures her record is just about perfect even from their own standpoint, but for these two reasons they are out to mow her down.
Address by President Roosevelt
November 2, 1944, 9:00 p.m. EWT
Broadcast from the White House, Washington, DC
Broadcast audio:
Ladies and gentlemen:
I had hoped that during the early part of this week I could have gone in person to some of the nearer Midwestern cities, such as Cleveland and Detroit, and I had hoped that I could visit some of my old friends in Upstate New York.
However, on my return to Washington from Chicago, I find that I am not free to spare the time right now. Therefore, I am speaking to you from the White House.
I am disappointed about this – but, as I told the American people a long time ago, I follow the principle of first things first; and this war comes first. That is why I have to be right here in Washington.
We have all been overjoyed by the news from the far Pacific, 8,000 miles away. Never before in all of history has it been possible successfully to conduct such massive operations with such long lines of supply and communications.
In the Pacific Theater, even while we are fighting a major war in Europe, our advance towards Japan is many months ahead of our own optimistic schedule.
But we must remember that any military operation conducted at such a distance is a hazardous undertaking. In any long advance, progress may be interrupted by checks or setbacks. However, ultimately our advance will stop only in Tokyo itself.
Our success has been the result of planning and organization and building; it has been the result of the hardest work and the hardest fighting of which our people are capable.
On the other side of the world, in Europe, the Allied forces under Gen. Eisenhower are pounding the Germans with relentless force.
We do not expect to have a winter lull in Europe. We expect to keep striking, to keep the enemy on the move, to hit him again and again, to give him no rest, and to drive through to the final objective – Berlin itself.
In Italy, against the handicap of rugged mountain obstacles, and against bitter German resistance, the Allied armies are steadily moving forward, wearing down the German fighting strength in a slow, hard slugging match.
In winning this war, there is just one sure way to guarantee the minimum of casualties – by seeing to it that, in every action, we have overwhelming material superiority.
We have already sent to Europe, just one of our many fronts, a force greater than the entire American Expeditionary Force of 1918. American troops are now fighting along a battle line of three hundred miles in northern France and Germany, and about a hundred miles long in Italy.
Within ten weeks after the first landings in France last June, the Allies had landed on the Normandy beaches nearly two million men, more than two million tons of supplies, and nearly half a million vehicles.
Think of all that vast mass of material for one operation think of the war factories and the ships and the planes, the railroads and labor required to produce and deliver the right supplies to the right place at the right time.
Then think of the tasks that lie ahead of us – all the long, tough miles to Berlin – all the major landings yet to be made in the Pacific – and you will have a conception of the magnitude of the job that remains to be done. It is still a job requiring the all-out production efforts of all of our people back here at home.
Delays in the performance of our job at home mean prolonging the war. They will mean an increase in the total price we must pay in the lives of our men.
All of our able commanders in the field know this. And so do our soldiers and sailors. And we at home must remember it and never forget it.
All Americans at home are concerned in this – the fulfillment of an obligation to our fighting men.
And the women of America are also most profoundly concerned.
Today, women are playing a far more direct, more personal part in the war than ever before.
First, and I think rightly first, are those women in uniform who have gone into the WAACs and the WAVES, the Marines and the Coast Guard, the nursing services of the Army and Navy, the Red Cross – serving in all kinds of places, in and out of the United States – all of them performing functions which definitely relieve men for combat work.
Then there are the millions of women who have gone into war industries. They are greatly responsible for the fact that the munitions and supplies to our men at the front have gone through to them on time.
And, finally, the women who uncomplainingly have done the job of keeping the homes going – the homes with service flags in the windows – service flags with blue stars or gold stars.
And we do not forget those women who have volunteered with the men in the difficult and important work of the ration boards all over the nation – doing the job of apportioning the necessities of life equitably among their neighbors, rich and poor.
Everyone who has made a sacrifice in this war – and that includes pretty close to 135 million Americans – is determined that this must not happen again, that the disastrous mistakes of the past shall not be repeated, that this nation shall be committed to playing a leading part in a world organization which shall be strong and effective and enduring.
We have been told during this political campaign that unless the American people elect the Republican presidential choice, the Congress will not cooperate in the peace. That is a threat to build a party spite-fence between us and the peace.
I do not know who empowers these men to speak for the Congress in uttering such a threat.
Certainly, the United States Senate and the House of Representatives showed no reluctance to agree with the foreign policy of this administration when, almost unanimously last year, they passed the Connally and Fulbright Resolutions which pledged this nation to cooperate in a world organization for peace.
These are high and serious matters to those who know how greatly our victory in this war and our ability to establish a lasting peace depend on maintaining unshaken that understanding which must be the core of the success of the United Nations.
It is heartening for me to have known and to have talked with the statesmen not of the big nations only, but the statesmen of the smaller nations – men like Beneš of Czechoslovakia, Mikołajczyk of Poland, Nygaardsvold of Norway – and leaders of democratic thought from Yugoslavia and Greece and Denmark and Belgium and The Netherlands – and, of course, the great leaders of our neighbor countries in this hemisphere.
I have spent many fruitful hours talking with men from the more remote nations – such as Turkey, Persia, Arabia, Palestine, Abyssinia, Liberia, Siam, and others – for all of them are part and parcel of the great family of nations. It is only through an understanding acquired by years of consultation, that one can get a viewpoint of their problems and their innate yearnings for freedom.
And all of them have this in common – that they yearn for peace and stability, and they look to the United States of America with hope and with faith.
The world is rising from the agony of the past. The world is turning with hope to the future. It would be a sorry and a cynical thing to betray this hope for the sake of mere political advantage, and a tragic thing to shatter it because of the failure of vision.
There have been some other aspects of this campaign which have been distasteful to all of us.
This campaign has been marred by even more than the usual crop of whisperings and rumorings. Some of these get into print, in certain types of newspapers; others are traded about, secretly, in one black market after another. I do not propose to answer in kind.
The voting record proves that the American people pay little attention to whispering campaigns. They have paid little attention to all the malignant rumors of enemy origin that have flooded this country before and during this war – and I am sure that they will treat the present whispering with the same contempt.
As we approach Election Day, more wicked charges may be made – and probably will – with the hope that someone or somebody will gain momentary advantage.
Hysterical, last-minute accusations or sensational revelations, are trumped up in an attempt to panic the people on Election Day.
But the American people are not panicked easily. Pearl Harbor proved that.
This election will not be decided on a basis of malignant murmurings, or shouts. It will be settled on the basis of the record.
We all know the record of our military achievements in this war.
And we all know the record of the tremendous production achievements of our American farmers, our American businessmen, and our American labor.
And we all know the record of our teamwork with our allies. Immediately after Pearl Harbor we formed with the other United Nations the greatest military coalition in all of world history. And we have gone steadily on from that to establish the basis for a strong and durable organization for world peace.
The America which built the greatest war machine in all history, and which kept it supplied, is an America which can look to the future with confidence and faith.
I propose the continuance of the teamwork that we have demonstrated in this war.
By carrying out the plans we have made, we can avoid a post-war depression – we can provide employment for our veterans and our war workers – we can achieve an orderly reconversion.
Above all, we can avoid another false boom like that which burst in 1929, and a dismal collapse like that of 1930 to 1933.
With continuance of our teamwork, I look forward, under the leadership of this government, to an era of expansion and production and employment – to new industries, to increased security.
I look forward to millions of new homes, fit for decent living; to new, low-priced automobiles; new highways; new airplanes and airports; to television; and other miraculous new inventions and discoveries, made during this war, which will be adapted to the peacetime uses of a peace-loving people.
The record that we have established in this war is one of which every American has a right to be proud – today and for all time.
We do not want the later record to say that the great job was done in vain.
We do not want our boys to come back to an America which is headed for another war in another generation.
Our post-war job will be to work, to build – for a better America than we have ever known.
If, in the next few years, we can start that job right, then you and I can know that we have kept faith with our boys – we have helped them to win a total victory.
Völkischer Beobachter (November 3, 1944)
Schachfigur Tschiangkaischek
Washingtons Doppelspiel mit Tschungking
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Führer HQ (November 3, 1944)
Kommuniqué des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht
Die tapfere Besatzung unseres Brückenkopfes nordöstlich Brügges wurde nach heftigen Nahkämpfen um den Gefechtsstand ihres Kommandeurs, Generalmajor Egerding, vom Feinde überwältigt. Aufopfernden Widerstand leistend, hat sie in den schweren Kämpfen der letzten Wochen über 50 feindliche Panzer im Nahkampf vernichtet. Auf der Insel Walcheren stehen unsere Truppen im Stadtgebiet von Vlissingen und an der Westspitze der Insel in schwerem Abwehrkampf gegen fortgesetzte Angriffe und Landungen. Marinebatterien vernichteten 17 große Landungsboote des Gegners und fügten dem Feind starke Verluste zu. Sicherungsstreifkräfte der Kriegsmarine versenkten vor der niederländischen Küste zwei britische Schnellboote und beschädigten sechs weitere schwer.
Nördlich Roosendaal stehen Unsere Truppen im Kampf mit feindlichen Verbänden, die in unser Hauptkampffeld eindringen konnten. Im Wald von Hürtgen, südöstlich Aachen, griffen die Amerikaner mit Panzerunterstützung unsere Stellungen an. Der Angriff blieb nach geringen Anfangserfolgen liegen.
Französische Bataillone, die am gestrigen Vormittag nördlich Baccarat angriffen, wurden zurückgeworfen. Entschlossener Widerstand und Gegenangriffe unserer Grenadiere hielten in den Wäldern zwischen Meürthe und Mortagne die den ganzen Tag über mit stärkeren Kräften angreifenden Nordamerikaner auf.
In Mittelitalien stand der Tag bei anhaltendem Regenwetter im Zeichen erfolgreicher eigener Unternehmungen. Fallschirmjäger warfen den Feind aus wichtigen Höhenstellungen westlich Imola, Grenadiere zerschlugen britische Angriffe vor unseren neuen Stellungen südlich Forli.
Auf dem Balkan verwehrt der erfolgreiche Abwehrkampf unserer Truppen im Strumicatal wie nordöstlich Skoplje und Pristlna den fortgesetzt angreifenden Bulgaren jedes Vordringen. Auch im Quellgebiet der westlichen Morava schlugen unsere Verbände die Bolschewisten zurück.
Das Drinatal und der Raum zwischen Save und Donau südlich Vukovar sind von Banden gesäubert.
Nordwestlich Kecskemét stehen deutsche und ungarische Verbände in schwerem Kampf mit bolschewistischen Infanterie- und Panzerkräften, die auf Budapest Vordringen. In die Kämpfe griffen auch unsere Schlachtflieger trotz schlechten Wetters mit guter Wirkung ein. Im Raum Szolnok erlitt der Feind bei heftigen, aber erfolglosen Angriffen erhebliche Verluste.
Zwischen den Waldkarpaten und dem Kurischen Haff kam es nur zu erfolglosen Einzelangriffen des Feindes in den Ostbeskiden und bei Goldap. Die Wucht der feindlichen Angriffe in Kurland hat gestern infolge der wirksamen deutschen Abwehr nachgelassen. Angreifende bolschewistische Verbände wurden zurückgeschlagen oder rasch wieder zu Boden gezwungen.
Anglo-amerikanische Terrorbomber mit starkem Jagdschutz griffen am Tage mitteldeutsches Gebiet sowie die Städte Bielefeld, Duisburg and Trier an. In erbitterten Luftkämpfen und durch Flakartillerie wurden 82 Flugzeuge abgeschossen.
In der vergangenen Nacht erzielten Nachtjäger und Flakartillerie bei Angriffen britischer Flugzeuge auf Düsseldorf mit dem Abschuß von 52 viermotorigen Bombern einen weiteren Abwehrerfolg. Damit verlor der Feind in den letzten 24 Stunden über dem Reichsgebiet 134 Flugzeuge, darunter 108 viermotorige Bomber.
Bei der Säuberung der Insel Piscopi, westlich Rhodos, haben sich die dort kämpfenden deutschen Kräfte unter Führung des Oberleutnants Jenninger und des Leutnants Biggelmann in entschlossenen Angriffen besonders ausgezeichnet.
Im ostpreußischen Grenzgebiet hat das Artillerieregiment 561 einer Volksgrenadierdivision unter Führung von Oberstleutnant Kauffeld schärfste Nahkämpfe mit eingebrochenem Feind bestanden und hierbei in zehn Tagen 42 Panzer vernichtet. Als Kampfstütze der schwer ringenden Infanterie war das Regiment an der Abwehr der Angriffe von fünf sowjetischen Divisionen und etwa sechs Panzerbrigaden hervorragend beteiligt.
In der Abwehrschlacht südöstlich Libau haben die fränkisch-bayerische 4. Panzerdivision unter Führung von Generalmajor Betzel und die norddeutsche 30. Infanteriedivision unter Führung des Oberst Barth den erstrebten Durchbruch des Feindes in zäher Abwehr und durch schwungvolle Gegenangriffe an entscheidender Stelle vereitelt.
Bei den Kämpfen im Petsamo- und Varangerraum hat sich die ostmärkische 6. Gebirgsdivision mit unterstellten mainfränkischen Grenadieren unter der tatkräftigen Führung von Generalmajor Pemsel in hartem Abwehrkampf besonders ausgezeichnet.
Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force (November 3, 1944)
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Communiqué No. 209
Progress on the island of Walcheren continues. Allied forces moving from Westkapelle have now bypassed Domburg, while others have reached a point within two miles of Flushing. Fighting continues in Flushing itself and at the western end of the Walcheren Causeway. All resistance in the area of Knokk and Zeebrugge has ceased. Fighters and fighter-bombers attacked enemy troops and positions in the region of Knokke during yesterday morning. Coastal guns and strong points on the Walcheren Island were also attacked, and close support was given to our ground forces north of Breda.
In southern Holland, bridges, locomotives and barges were attacked and rail lines cut. In the Meijel area, Allied troops advanced to within 2,000 yards of the town. Our troops, attacking in the Hürtgen sector after heavy artillery preparation, made gains of 2,500 yards. The town of Vossenack, one and one-half miles south of Hürtgen was taken, and our drive is continuing against stiffening resistance. A factory south of Bonn and an airfield to the east of Trier were targets for fighter-bombers, which also attacked locomotives and freight cars and cut rail lines in the Köln and Düsseldorf areas. Heavy bombers, escorted by fighters, attacked the synthetic oil plant at Homberg in the Ruhr. Three enemy aircraft were shot down. Four heavy bombers and three fighters are missing.
Five rail bridges behind the enemy lines were the targets for medium and light bombers; the bridges attacked were in the Moselle River Valley at Konz-Karthaus, Ehrang, and Bullay, over the Nette River at Mayen, and over the Erft River at Euskirchen. The medium bombers were escorted by fighters. Last night, more than 1000 aircraft were over western Germany with Düsseldorf as the main objective. Light bombers attacked Osnabrück. In France, Baccarat in the Vosges Foothills has been freed and the villages of Gélacourt and Deneuvre, near Baccarat, are in our hands. Gains were also made farther south where the village of La Bourgonce was taken against heavy resistance. In the Moselotte River bend our positions have been improved.
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CINCPAC Communiqué No. 173
During the night of November 1‑2 (West Longitude Date), nine enemy twin‑engine bombers, presumably from bases in the Bonins, bombed and strafed Isely Airfield on Saipan and the northern airfield in Tinian. Three of the enemy raiders were shot down, one by night fighter aircraft and two by anti-aircraft guns. Our personnel casualties were four killed and one seriously injured when one of the enemy planes was shot down and crashed on the field. Minor damage was suffered at both airfields.
An enemy reconnaissance sea plane attacked Peleliu Island on October 31 but was shot down by one of our Hellcat night fighters.
One of the Third Fleet carrier groups was attacked by enemy fighters and dive bombers on November 1, inflicting some damage to several ships and light personnel casualties. Six enemy planes were destroyed by anti-aircraft fire and four others were shot down by our aircraft.
Eleventh Air Force Mitchell bombers dropped fragmentation and incendiary bombs on Paramushiru on October 31. One of our planes was attacked by five enemy fighters but is reported to have landed safely.
Seventh Air Force Army Liberators and Navy search Liberators of Fleet Air Wing One teamed up to hit enemy positions in the Volcano Islands and the Bonins on October 31. Airfields at Chichijima and Iwo Jima were bombed, shipping at Iwo Jima was attacked, and buildings at Hahajima were hit. Anti-aircraft fire was intense. Seventh Air Force Liberators bombed four cargo ships at Chichijima on November 1, scoring several direct hits. One ship was sunk, one was left burning while the other two were damaged. Seventh Air Force Liberators also bombed shipping in the harbor at Hahajima on the same day.
Corsairs of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing set barges afire at Babelthuap Island in the Northern Palaus on October 31. Corsairs also bombed the airfield at Yap Island.
Corsairs of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing strafed enemy targets on Rota Island on October 31. On November 1, targets on Rota were again strafed by Corsairs while 7th Air Force Thunderbolts launched rockets against supply dumps on Pagan Island.
CINCPAC Press Release No. 617
For Immediate Release
November 3, 1944
RAdm. Walden L. Ainsworth (USN) of Wonalancet, New Hampshire, has assumed command as Commander Cruisers and Commander Destroyers, Pacific Fleet, CINCPACPOA Adm. Chester W. Nimitz (USN) announced today.
RAdm. Ainsworth succeeds RAdm. James L. Kauffman (USN) of Miami Beach, Florida, who has been assigned another sea command. Before taking over his new post, RAdm. Ainsworth was commander of a cruiser division.
A veteran campaigner, the flag officer has commanded numerous task forces in the Pacific since the outbreak of war. With one exception, he participated in every major naval action in the South Pacific area since December 1942. Units under his command have engaged in most of the recent combat in the Western Pacific.
Statement by President Roosevelt to Employers
November 3, 1944
I urge that all employers allow such time off to their workers as is necessary to give them an adequate opportunity to vote on Election Day.
It is important that the mandate of the election should be as representative of the whole people as possible, irrespective of whom they vote for.
I am informed that certain companies having contracts with the government have raised with the procurement agencies the question whether, under such contracts, pay to their workers will be allowed as reimbursable cost if time off is granted on election day.
The agencies have ruled that such payments are legitimate expenditures under cost-plus contracts; that they may be considered for the purpose of making any computation or adjustment required by the provisions of fixed-price contracts; and that they may also be appropriately allowed as such expenditures in renegotiation of lump-sum contracts.
Under these circumstances all firms having contracts with the government are especially urged to allow their workers – who have done so much to help win this war – to have full opportunity to express their choice in this election whatever that choice may be.
And I ask that any employee, who is not allowed enough time to vote, inform me of the circumstances, together with the name of his company and any other pertinent facts.
There has been much interest in the subject of soldier voting. I am sure that there is an equal interest in facilitating the vote of civilian workers, regardless of their choice. This point of view seems to be essentially American.
The Pittsburgh Press (November 3, 1944)
BATTERED JAPS FLEEING LEYTE
Last of foe pocketed on west coast
MacArthur’s forces drive across island
By William B. Dickinson, United Press staff writer
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Yanks gain 2½ miles in Reich
First Army 27 miles from Cologne; British take city of Flushing
By J. Edward Murray, United Press staff writer
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Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
Hollywood, California –
Well, I’ve never heard of so many election bets. Why, even Ann Sheridan has promised to go down Hollywood Boulevard made up in blackface if her candidate is defeated. But if she loses the bet, she won’t lose any “oomph.” It’s not the color of her skin that interests the men; it’s the way it fits.
President Roosevelt bets a quarter on each election and admits that he loses every time. My goodness, if he bets a quarter every time he runs, that could run into big money.
George and I have a bet on which candidate will carry California. If I win, George has to give me the money for a new hat. If I lose, I’ll just charge it.