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...question was: are the Germans on their last legs? If Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov's First White Russian Army suddenly threw caution to the winds and dashed for Berlin, the answer would be yes. Best guess: he would not. Although his frontal thrust toward the heart of the Reich made heartening headlines, military analysts watched his northern wing with increasing interest. That wing had probed to within 20 miles of Stettin. Paradoxically it was a greater threat to Berlin than the shorter thrust through the twin Oder River fortresses of Frankfurt and Küstrin, where the Germans...
...Rafferty's ward, it seems) about cracking eggs, we must break quite a few to mix this week's omelet. The atmosphere is electric now that one doesn't know but what one's best friend may weaken and make plans for a wedding this February. All caution has been cast to the winds. The only safe way to enumerate the prospects is to gay that we know absolutely that "hermit" Dean Brooks and "leach" White are not planning anything. As for the rest, well--anything can happen...
...Memories. In his bare little office in Tacloban, small, silent President Sergio Osmeña toiled at the multiple tasks of the new Government. He moved with tolerance and caution. After Corregidor's surrender, thousands of Filipinos had accepted Japanese "Kalibapi cards" and joined Japanese "neighborhood associations," simply to go on living and eating. But the Filipinos wanted no head-shavings or witch hunts. By last week 140 suspected collaborators were imprisoned. But Sergio Osmeña wanted only major offenders; 60 small fry suspects had already been paroled...
Most readers presumably put it down as one more example of military censorship's curseworthy red tape and over-caution. But from London last week came an explanation. SHAEF censors review "held" stories as often and as quickly as they can, to see if once-restricted information can now be released. But they expect correspondents to cooperate with them by jogging their memory. By the time the restricted facts in the Times story were released, both the correspondent and the censor, busy getting on with the war, had forgotten about the story...
...point up a reason for all this caution, the Senate's Mead Committee last week came up with a first-rate example of the enormous profits which private speculators might make in surpluses. The Army decided to sell 22,000,000 flashlight batteries-for which it had paid 7½? each-for 4? apiece, although the ceiling price on such batteries is 10?. Thus, buyers might clean up as much as $1,000,000 by reselling the batteries. When the Senate Committee stepped in, the Treasury hastily canceled the sale...