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...World War I had no real political significance.) The U.S. forces now in mainland Europe are not large, but they soon will be. They are advancing from the Mediterranean into Southern Europe and toward Middle Europe-the areas to which Joseph Stalin is most sensitive. The range of Anglo-U.S. air power covers all Europe. Cordell Hull, of course, cannot and will not assert that these forces are or ever may be forces opposed to the Red Army. But Joseph Stalin himself, by his intense interest in the inter-Allied Mediterranean Commission-to which he took care to appoint...
...Times-Herald. It was a story by dapper, opinionated William K. Hutchinson, chief of the Hearst-owned I.N.S. Washington bureau. His story's gist: 1) that "a group of influential White House advisers" was conspiring to kick General Marshall upstairs "to a glorified but powerless world command over Anglo-American forces"; 2) that the motive "is to use the Army's vast production program . . . as a political weapon in the 1944 Presidential campaign." As the President read he bore down jeeringly on the more purple key phrases...
...continued progress of Anglo-American preponderance . . . opens the possibilities of saturating German defenses. ... If a certain degree of saturation can be reached ... we shall create conditions under which . . . the actual methodical destruction ... of the enemy military target . . . will become possible...
...Army, regulate production, wages and hours, will be drastically reformed. > Holidays will be curtailed. Tojo's Fears. Of the 2,900 words in Tojo's address, Italy was not one. But the Italian collapse, Tojo knew, did more than remove an ally. It Also foreshadowed stronger Anglo-U.S. pressure in the Pacific, and dented Japan's morale. ("Just one severe bombing of Rome and the people . . . began to negotiate with the enemy This ... was a weak thing to do," Commented one announcer...
Monkey Wrenches. Busy Japs were reported trying to get peace negotiations started between Russia and Germany. Madrid was spreading disquieting rumors of German plans to reach a stalemate on the Eastern front, heave a staggering number of men across the Reich at Anglo-U.S. bridgeheads wherever they might appear in the West. The Red Army's Red Star was still loudly asserting that no second front had come into being. The new outlet for official unofficial Russian views, War and the Working Class, was politely calling departed U.S. Ambassador William Standley a spreader of statements (about publicity...