The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-03

Ine Allies ended the year strong. CT than when they started In Atrik.
 Ing potential. Russia still is flshtinr
 and the United States has just be.
 gun to fight. Britain has taken the
 offensive in the air and soon pow
 erful American formations will joir
 tn the fourth year aerial offensive
 that will make the l,000-plane raids
 seem like a zephyr. Il Russia must be kept in the war
 ct an costs and there seems no im-
 mediate danger of Q Russian col-
 alpse. The Soviet, however, de-
 mands Q second front in the West
 to force Hitler to withdraw men
 and planes from the East and face
 that nightmare of all German strat- egistS, a two-front war.
 Britain and Russia i'm Pact
 If Axis successes in Russia con-
 tinue, British and American mili-
 tary leaders may be forced to drop their plans for the fullest possible preparation and undertake Q big scale diversion in the west, The dif- faculties of such an attempt would be tremendous and the dangers grave.
 Aside from the entry of the Unit- ed States and Japan into the war, one of the most important events was the pact between Britain, the worlds greatest empire, and Soviet Russia, home of the worlds great est revolutionary movement,
 The alliance, signed in London May 20, i942, by Foreign Commis- sar Vyacheslav M. Molotov and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, pledged the two nations to fight the war to a finish and to see that the peace that follows Is kept.
 Singapore Lost
 Britain passed comparatiyely easy year at home with a slacken- ing of air raids, but throughout her empire she suffered heavily, espe- cially in the Far East where Hong Kong fell and Singapore was sur- rendered with 60,00O men after the Japanese swept down through the Malayan peninsula. Another sting ing loss came in Libya, where To- bruk fell, with Q loss of 25,0O0 men taken prisoner. Burma also fell, as did the Netherlands East Indies. N On the credit side were the ter rife bombing raids on German in- dustrial cities in the Rhineland- Ruhr districts and along the Pacific coast. Britain introduced the use Of two-ton "block- buster" bombs and the dumping of thousands of incendiary bombs became com monplace. The U, S. Air Force also began to see action against Nazi targets in the closing month of the third year.
 Moving into the fourth year. Brit ish people are eating better, living better and enjoying more luxuries than any of the embattled nations with the exception of the United States.
 Food Ample in Britain
 The nations heSth is good and the children are better fed and clothed than in the days before the war. Food is rationed, but there is ample for 8 balanced diet for ev- eryone. Taxes are heavy, but wages are high.
 The meat ration varies from half- a-pound 8 week of the expensive | cuts to @ pound of cheaper grades, and the special bacon ration is suf- | ficient for about three orders a | week. Bread and potatoes have nev- CT been rationed, are plentiful and | reasonably priced. Millions of tins of dried eggs-a tin is the equiva- lent of dozen eggs - are on the market and each person is entitled to a tin a month.
 London rents are high and fuel Is scarce and may be rationed this winter. Clothing is limited and util- ltaran styles are demanded. Here are some luxury prices:
 Sabotage Increases
 Dinner dance at the Hotel Savoy with wine, $8 and up a person; about $ll a quart in the night clubs; whiskey elsewhere. when obtainable, about $6 a fifth: cigarettes, 50 cents a pack; movie oge seats, around g. Working mems beer, very weak, sells for 9 cents a pint
 An important development of the 'hird year was the rising tide of sabotage in the occupied countries 'he organization of a guerrilla lrmy in Jugoslavia and the ruthless measures of the German Gestapo n dealing with anyone suspected of liding the Allies. Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch fin lugoslavia virtually opened a second ront with his guerrillas and it was 'stimated that his mountain army vas keeping more than 1000. .OOo ( Herman, Italian and other satellite roops engaged.
 Underground Armies Grow ( Sabotage forced the Germans to E Increase their Gestapo and SS troop orces in all occupied countries. The ! Dutch fired their own factories { ather than work them for the i Iazis; Norwegians, Poles and Czechs efused to work for Hitler. Troops [ md supply trains were deraiIed, 4 anal gates dynamited and German oldiers and officials slain. h The Nazis retaliated with mass 5 xecutiong and the deportation of undreds of thousands. Hltlers No.
 hangman, Reinhardt Heydrich, |, 'as killed in czecbosloVakia and ' undreds lost their lives in conse- ], ], uence, including the 200 residents !, Lidice, whom Hitler ordered eY- 7 .uted after the town was literally ,, iped out. Y The increasing signs of resis- ' lnce to Germany's new order" < 7 the little nations showed that le V for victory armies were grow 2 lg and that the gebelIions was v adv to break mt whenaver fhA A