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The Milky Way
By Florence Fisher Parry
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Bond shows commemorate Pearl Harbor
Army, Navy chaplains remind city of tasks
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Mistrial declared in sedition case
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Simms: Political split among Allies cheers Axis
Agreement needed on Italy, Greece
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
Washington –
The third anniversary of Pearl arbor finds the Allies so dangerously far apart politically that unless President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin soon remedy the situation the Axis may yet win something short of unconditional surrender.
Moscow, London and Washington are working at political cross-purposes. They are determined, of course, to smash Hitler and all three claim that democratic government everywhere is their chief war aim. But it is tragically clear that their ideas concerning democratic government are far apart – whether in Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, China or elsewhere.
Because of the failure of the Big Three to agree on a workable formula, the whole European continent – Soviet territory excepted – is on the verge of revolution or civil war.
Rioting is rife
Arms paid for by American taxpayers and given to Europeans to help them fight the Nazis, are now being used to kill one another.
They may yet be turned against the Allies because Allied troops may be compelled to use force to keep their supply lines open.
Greece is an example of what is threatening Europe. Led by Communists, leftists are trying to overthrow the existing temporary regime and impose themselves. Scores have been killed and hundreds wounded.
Following British intervention in the Italian political crisis, Secretary of State Stettinius issued a statement which was interpreted here and in London as a rebuke.
Good news for Axis
These disturbances in Europe and Asia are the best possible encouragement to the Germans and the Japs.
When they see evidences of disagreement among the Big Three over how to control the disturbances, it makes them feel that if they can only hang on long enough, the Allies, instead of the Axis, will go to pieces from within.
If Europe is allowed to drift into civil war – and the revolutionaries are using fundamentally the same tactics pretty much throughout the continent – the Anglo-American war effort may be hamstrung.
The Allies armies may find themselves caught between Hitler’s fanatical Nazis in front of them and half a dozen civil wars behind there.
The danger remains and there is every reason to believe that it will grow. There is only one way to get rid of it and that is by a better understanding between Moscow, London and Washington.
Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
Now that German morale is getting to the stage where they can’t remember whether Bismarck was a hero or a herring, along comes Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce to Europe and confuses them still more. I hear that two Nazi companies surrendered when they got a glimpse of her hat, thinking it was a new secret weapon.
It takes a lot of nerve for such a brilliant and beautiful woman to get that close to the front. Mrs. Luce well may be the Allies’ answer to the V-2. She uses 88mm adjectives, has a short firing fuse, and is liable to explode in any direction. The only trouble is the generals don’t know which way to aim her – the same trouble the Republicans had during the election.
Goodness, if she should happen to run into Secretary Harold L. Ickes, both armies are going to hear a verbal battle that will make the struggle for the Saar Valley look like a maypole dance at Bryn Mawr.
New appointees face inquiries
Senate postpones confirmation action
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U.S., Japs exchange prisoner supplies
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To the top of the world –
Tibet’s Dalai Lama viewed as incarnation of deity
Boy priest-king commands more devotion from people than any other ruler
By A. T. Steele
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Britain hits at Stettinius, London hears
But Times assails England’s policy
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Pearl Harbor trial time extended
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Editorial: Three years and–
On this third anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the European war is in its final phase and the Pacific enemy has been driven back to his intermediate defenses. We have come a long way. But the victory road ahead is hard and bloody.
It is just six months since Gen. Eisenhower did the “impossible” in the cross-Channel invasion. Hitler has lost Western Europe, much equipment and a million and a quarter of his best troops. The Allies are advancing inside Germany.
When victory will come depends partly on the ability of our Russian allies, who have carried the heaviest load to date, to break the long stalemate on the Vistula. Though the Russian advance on Budapest and Vienna is important, like our Italian campaign, only a drive across Poland can bring speedy victory. For that is the short road to Berlin and also to Silesia, Hitler’s second industrial center. Gen. Eisenhower will knock out the Ruhr, as he is now smashing the Saar, and thus stop German production, if a Russian offensive takes Silesia and prevents Hitler from shifting more reinforcements from east to west.
In the Pacific, despite a temporary delay in Gen. MacArthur’s Philippine campaign, we are ahead of schedule. From Saipan and other bases, our naval and air forces are cutting Jap lines and bombing Tokyo. Only in China is the enemy winning.
We go into the fourth year of war with great strength, but also some weakness.
Most important, neither enemy intrigue nor internal stress has weakened the grand alliance. Our own country has remained united despite a hard-fought political campaign. Allied military power and productive capacity are vastly superior. Allied military leadership is tops. The fighting quality and spirit of our men is superb.
Allied weakness includes imperialist policies of European powers, which increase political divisions in liberated European countries behind Allied military lines – and which prevent most Asiatic peoples from fighting for the Allies, as are the Filipinos. A second Allied weakness is that destruction in Allied European countries, and the long strain in Britain, will leave the United States – after German defeat – the only relatively fresh power to finish Japan.
The worst weakness is in long-suffering China. That is partly caused by Jap strategy, by China’s years of travail, by internal Chinese politics and inefficiency, and by American-British failure to establish supply routes. Now that Americans bases in eastern China have been lost, and the enemy is within striking distance of Chungking and of Kunming, our last hope of an interior supply base, the Generalissimo and President Roosevelt are frantically trying to save the situation – with some success. Unless we can regain Chinese bases for the knockout blow against Japan, our military chiefs agree the war will be much prolonged.
But the Allied weakness which should worry us most – because it is the only one we at home can do much about – is the American letdown. While many of us think the war is won and act accordingly, the blood banks are low, War Bond sales to individuals are slow, and the production shortage extends to 40 percent of all military items.
The Germans and Japs only count on an American letdown preventing Allied victory. Of course, they are wrong. But until we get our second wind, until the home front is able to keep up with the heroic fighting front, we shall delay victory. For every ally and every front depends on American production.
Perkins: New union urging reform is spurned by the AFL
Head of watch workers rei9terates stand that labor must clean up its own house
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Aviation Award presented to Scripps-Howard papers
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Aid of consumers urged in job task
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