The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-15
Interpreting
The War
By KIRKE L. Simpson

Aiaeo oomos on this mid.Ausust
weekend but it is ON an ,nn.as
ing new mobilization of Amer,oaN I
Canadian and British miIitsu,
brain trusters in Quebec, tb.,
world attention centers. ''
Under personal direction n p
ident Roosevelt and Prime Mini.
ter Churchill, top ranking An,a,
air. sea and ground warfar. .1
perts are gathering in Canad. =.
chart new war directiyes tor a, ~
global struggle. They are ,at Wv ~.
take time by the forelock ss,,S
and map new blows at Axis ' ta.
while the enemy still reels I've, .Ves
from the defeats inflicted in A RN.
sla, IN Sicily and on the sea front.
Major Decisions Expected
Strategic decisions designed :,
lop months of the duration of N.
war on all fronts are to be .ynsn. %
ed. But they will be disclosed an.
ly as each new Allied slash IN III.
mounting cumulative attacks dsvsI
ops weeks or months later.
There are several essentia, ,oo
tors In the war situation that tera
tc reveal in broad outline matte,
which the experts are consderins
The means to achieve desired stra.
tegic ends now are available 10 IN,
Allies as Lever before.
Mediterranean victories that h,,.
made Italy in matter OF weepv
an impotent. tottering war paralv.
tic on German hands instead of ,
helpful ally are yet to be exploit;d d
fully. One of the latest intane!bl.
clues as to the effect of the ham.
mering Of Italy is yesterdays Rohs
announcement that the Italian GOV.
errlrent had taken STEPS to de.
clare F. me an open city without
further delay.
| Moreover, there was bold evil
dence that the Allies were winning
| in another phase Of the war. Prime
Minister Churchill and President
Roosevelt announced jointly that "
U-boats had ben sunk in May,
June and July and that new ships
completed by the Allies in 1S43 "ex.
ceed all sinkings from all causes by
upwards Of three million tons
This development supplements re.
opening of the short Mediterranean
route to the Irdjan Ocean and the
Middle East.
Time Is Key
That is a matter of supreme con.
sequence for the war planners
gathering in Canada. 1t vitality
| bears on the time element Of what
they can hope to do by cutting
| weeks off the period otherwise nec-
J essary to organize and deliver new
and heavier blows to add to AXIS
| misery on any front around the
: world.
And time, working now IN Allied
favor, is the key to what may hap
pen in Europe as another gllm
winter approaches for Naz inyad
ers in Russia.
Nazi blitzkrieg veterans are Ill
full flight from Sicily as this was
written. They were confronted IN
Russia with greater and far
more perilous flight behind the
Dnieper on a S00-mile front as Red
columns poured forward to engulf
and isalte the fortified bastions OIL
a once impregnable German hedge
: hog front in the east like Bryansk,
Smolensk and Kharkov.
, When the strategic conference IN
Canada ends, its chosen spokesman
unouestionably will say as Chur-
chill said of the meeting three
= months ago, that taking enemy
weight off Russia still is a prime
Allied objective. The absence OF
Russian leaders from the 'ouncil
= of war in no way alters that
0 london commentators read INTO
: Moscow announcement that the
Y Russians had not been invited 10
4 the parley and did not deem NUS
:; sian participation necessary oecdusS
l of its mature" an indication lna'
: the primary Allied purpose IN t"s
1 delihoration in Canada is to step
4 nm the attack on Japan. There H
i every reason to believe that the '',
diar 0cean-Pacific front will come
! in concentrated attention VIII"
that in mind.
No realistic appraisal Of the pos
sibilities inherent in the Russian
summer offensive however pei.
: mits the conclusion that it VIII Nv.
: stand foremost among the ne"
t factors with which Allied ieaoe,
t ship is called upon to deal pfonlP'.
lv. The Moscow statement can W
more easily translated as q husS'.,, ,,'s
intimation that immediate All'sa
action to complement The VdS' 0l,'
menacing Red army summer
. sault is expected by Russia
BY implication it is a ne" l .
. sian call for the opening this YEA, "a,
of an Allied western front asd'"., :.
Germany. And Allied successes :.
Sicily, not only in the territory
quickly swept clear OF the loe,
in the weaving of an interna'i0..
mixed force of a unity IN 'O
mand and staff work, man
Uestern inva sion attempt faf N''