Supreme Court upsets treason case
Charges insufficient to warrant conviction
…
Americans execute German for espionage
…
Stettinius, Eden again confer with Molotov
Foreign ministers discuss Poland
…
Simms: Delegates wonder if Stalin is bluffing
May be trying to get Allies to back down
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
…
Perkins: Warring AFL, CIO ready to give world peace advice
But, of course, they can’t agree on just what’s the best way to achieve it
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
…
Americans and Russians make contact by radio
Yanks find Red soldiers talk just like G.I.’s – voices of Soviet troops becoming louder
By Robert Vermillion, United Press staff writer
WITH U.S. TROOPS, beyond the Elbe (April 22, delayed) – The Americans and Russians made contact deep in Germany today – by radio.
Hour by hour, the Russian voices have become louder and plainer. And the Russians have heard us, but are not yet sure they believed us.
The first contact was made this afternoon after a liberated “liaison” officer named Prissjaschnjun broke in several times and called the Russians.
“Who are you? Identify yourself and your commanding officer,” came back the answer.
Contact fades
Prissjaschnjun was trying to figure out the answers when the radio contact faded.
That was the first time the advance U.S. and Russian forces talked with each other, although the Yanks have been listening to the exchange of messages among Soviet troops.
And the astonishing thing to every Doughboy who can understand 10 words of Russian is that the Soviet G.I.’s sound just like American G.I.’s.
A dozen or more men can be found clustered around every vehicle which can muster a translator.
‘Talking just like us’
“Whadda they say now, Joe?”, the G.I.’s demand when they hear the Russian voices.
The translator bends over his set, combs out the static and relays the play-by-play:
“They’re talking just like us. One of the guys is telling Ivan ‘Hey, wake up,’ and Ivan’s telling him ‘All right, all right, I’m awake.’”
Then the translator waits awhile until the Russians start talking again.
Gives translation
That’s a couple of code names talking to each other – you know like “Blackjack Red from Blackjack: Power six wants to know how close you are to objective Haddock.”
The G.I.’s smile in amazement.
“Well, whaddya know – just like us.”
No longer do they feel they are about to meet men from Mars.
Reconnaissance elements, with Russian-speaking G.I.’s, are already poised to follow up that radio contact and the 329th Infantry Regiment is getting a task force ready to follow the reconnaissance.
Junction imminent
Although the closest approach of the Russians to the Ninth Army is still uncertain, everything indicates the junction should be imminent.
The 329th Infantry’s reconnaissance and intelligence platoon, which is standing by to slash from the bridgehead toward the Russians, is headed by Lt. Sam Magill of Ashtabula, Ohio.
It is the same outfit which brought in 20,000 Germans from south of the Loire River last autumn.
Pearson story denied
PARIS, France – Allied Supreme Headquarters has officially denied a report that U.S. troops reached the outskirts of Potsdam and then withdrew because of an agreement to permit Russian troops to enter Berlin first. Washington columnist Drew Pearson made the assertion Saturday night.
Japs practice cannibalism on war dead
Eat bodies of Yanks, Aussies in Guinea
By Frank H. Bartholomew
…
Japs get lessons in cannibalism
…
Editorial: Germany destroys herself
The great day of Allied entry into Berlin has come. To the south, a meeting of the armies of Russia and the Western Allies is imminent, if it has not already occurred. But the time for rejoicing is not yet. V-E Day is postponed. Gen. Eisenhower warns that it may not come until summer.
This may be an overly-cautious prediction. But even to us civilians at home, it is obvious that there is a big military job yet to be done.
Not that it is an orthodox military job remaining. By all the rules of warfare the German armies are beaten beyond any hope of recovery. In most places, particularly in the west, there is no organized front. No amount of Nazi skill, courage or fanaticism can reorganize those armies for they have been decimated by death and surrender until only remnants are left, and those lack the supplies and communications essential to major warfare.
Instead of stopping the war under these hopeless conditions, however, the Nazi authorities choose destruction. Hitler, or whoever speaks for him, has ordered isolated pockets, ports and cities to hold out until death. He has called upon the “faithful” behind Allied lines to carry on guerrilla warfare.
Neither Hitler nor Marshal Stalin nor Gen. Eisenhower can know how long it will take the Allies to clean up such a sticky situation, though all know that the final result is inevitable. Hitler’s written order for guerilla warfare, captured by the British, says: “We have to adopt the same method taught us by the Russians in the years 1942-44.” But the German soldier has neither the “partisan” training of the Russian, nor the morale.
While the Nazi tactics of desperation postpone Allied victory, they also hasten and complete the destruction of a large part of Germany. And, in the long view, the latter is more significant.
What is happening is that the Nazi suicide stand is imposing a form of suicide on the German people. Those who have followed Hitler all these years even at this late date lack the will. or power, to defy him in order to save themselves and their cities.
Whether it is called mass paralysis or insanity, or simply muss stupefaction, the defeated German people are imposing upon themselves and their land a retribution more terrible than ever contemplated by their enemies. Berlin is now added to the long list of German cities virtually wiped out.
They will be a heritage of suffering for Germans yet unborn. For when V-E Day comes there will be no surcease for Germans. Even if the entire Allied effort after European victory were devoted to German relief, many years would be required to establish a minimum basis for civilized existence. Actually, the European allies will be busy rebuilding their own lands, and the United States at least will be concentrating on winning the Pacific war.
Altogether apart from reparations – and these will be heavy – the German people have created conditions in their country which condemn them to a bondage of misery. Every day they continue the war, they project that self-imposed suffering further into the future. They think they are hurting us, though they are destroying themselves.
The life of Harry Truman –
Pendergast machine boosts him to his first political office
Republican friends help keep voting honest in President’s first try
By Frances Burns
…
Janie Gets Married cast a lively gang
Players so gay and enthusiastic, they simply ‘run away with script’
By Maxine Garrison
…
Food shortage is blamed on U.S. policies
Author Bromfield hits mismanagement
By Robert Seltzer, Scripps-Howard staff writer
…
In Washington –
Freer hand predicted for business
That was Truman’s aim when senator
…
McGrady may get Miss Perkins’ job
…