America at war! (1941–) – Part 5

Poll: Public favors harsh penalty for Hirohito

Largest number urges execution
By George Gallup, Director, American Institute of Public Opinion

4,000 soldiers freed to work on railroads

Emergency furloughs of 30 days ordered

Ace first-nighters pick own ‘bests’

The Katzenbergs, who never miss a show, bestow seasonal awards
By Burton Rascoe


What’s in a name – or, rather, title?

Labels on films seldom retained
By Maxine Garrison

40,000 return to Detroit’s auto plants

Glass, rubber, steel strikes continue
By the United Press

Bell: Soupline princess

By Jack Bell

Stokes: Sacred trust

By Thomas L. Stokes

Othman: Great goin’s-on

By Fred Othman

Maj. Williams: An American story

By Maj. Al Williams

3 torpedoes and 3 ships stop floating

By Robert J. Casey

Rudderless DE back home after suicide plane attack

USS Bright blasted in three-minute fight off Okinawa; stern wrecked by attacker


U.S. transport hit amidships

36 lost in blow by 1,000-pound bomb

Ernie Pyle’s carrier ready for duty after overhaul

USS Cabot, veteran of Task Force 58, sailed 225,000 miles in Pacific battle zones


Ray Milland, wife end trial separation

Gracie Allen Reporting

By Gracie Allen

Well, the San Francisco Conference has given us a charter for peace, and from now on it’s up to us. Fortunately, peace is different from things like butter and lamb chops. You see, the more people who want peace, the more there is to go around.

I can imagine those delegates arriving home with their new knowledge of American customs. I can just see one of the Arabian delegates riding proudly up to his ancestral tent with bobby socks and several camel loads of breakfast food. Or an Egyptian representative greeting his wife with a stack of Benny Goodman records under one arm, and a bag of buttered popcorn under the other.

Goodbye, peace delegates. And if anyone asks you about the beautiful California weather, please keep the peace. Don’t tell them.

Millett: These are happy music to civilians’ ears

Being on spot when scarce items are doled out lifts morale
By Ruth Millett

Fight pushed on illegal gold stock sales

Legal action against Canadian issues taken

Bucs aim to even series with Giants

Butcher faces Voiselle; Strincevich is master as Pirates win, 3-1
By Chester L. Smith, sports editor

West Point to admit many enlisted men

Broadcast birthday vetoed

Station owners say ‘win the war’
By Si Steinhauser

Youngstown Vindicator (June 29, 1945)

Bares traits of Nazi great

Dietrich gives U.S. Army catalogue – says Himmler aped Hitler
By George Tucker

Dorothy Thompson1

ON THE RECORD —
Germany knocked out forever

By Dorothy Thompson

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany – Whoever has been over as much of Germany as I have in the last few weeks, covering part of Hesse and Wuerttemberg and a very large part of Bavaria with adjoining Austria, will agree with Gen. Jacob L. Devers that Germany is knocked out for 100 years.

I go farther and say Germany is knocked out as a great power forever.

If she cannot come back in 50 years, she can’t come back at all. The world will not stand still in this time. The nations that defeated her, in particular the United States and the Soviet Union, will not decline in strength, and since all the powers are relative, Germany never will be able to recapture anything approximating her position held either in 1914 or 1939.

No country can be a world power without manpower, industrial development of its great natural resources or free access to them, intellectual leadership, and a favorable geographic space situation.

Loss of population

All five of these are gone for Germany. Demographically she has been declining, like all the west, for generations, except for a brief artificial spurt under Hitler. Her losses in population in this war, though not yet even approximated, are staggering and include not only the war dead or totally incapacitated, but the great losses of children in bombings. It is possible she has lost, through productive years, the bulk of her prisoners in Russia. No German family has heard from them since January and it is believed they are to be held for Russian labor reconstruction.

Germany never again can draw on the rich manpower and natural resources of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, for they are in the Russian defense system. A subsistence or sub-subsistence standard of living and diminishing opportunities, which is Germany’s inescapable fate, will further decrease the ratio of births over deaths.

The entire urban civilization is demolished. There is not a city of more than 50,000 or 60,000 intact and most of these only can be razed and rebuilt from scratch, if at all. Their falls have carried with them factories, communications, universities, laboratories, shops, and museums. No words can describe the terrible spectacle of these crushed, burnt-out, abandoned crags and cliffs of broken mortar.

Lack of leadership

The generation from which intellectual leadership might come is decimated. Youth has been rendered stupid by Nazi training.

Finally, Germany’s geographical-space situation is henceforth impossible for a war of her own instigation. She no longer is surrounded on the east by weak independent states which could be eliminated one by one. She could never fight a war against the west without Russia and with Russia she would be a mere instrument and battleground. In a war against Russia, she would be the first country occupied. Germany, therefore, is finished as a menace.

But what the ultimate historic consequences of the total elimination of Europe’s once most powerful state will be, our statesmen haven’t yet, I think, thought through. Elimination of a great power by a combination of allies never redounds equally to the benefit of all. It always strengthens one relative to another or others. That is the danger inherent in wars which seek to eradicate nations from the earth – those terrible illimitable Carthaginian wars of the 20th century.

Lawrence: Naval airmen do great job

Cover ground troops at Okinawa for nearly three months
By David Lawrence