The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-12
Interpreting
The War
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON


The drums CT destiny are be.,
ing for the Axis not only in Russ
n Sicily, in the Solomons and Noa',
Guinea and at sea, but on tSi,
sioe of the Atlantic. The in,r,'
nent Roosevelt Churchill meet,
with staff strategists foresbadon,oo
Allied military decisions of sm
Lreme consequence.
The nour and the forces ara -
Land for bod and aggressive
strokes to clinch the dawning viz
tory, and clinch it soon. 1t is WIKI
the ways and means, military and
perhaps political, that the AllioS
war captains and their counciIIors
will deal when they meet in tbo
rev world to plan the rebirtb in
freedom of the old. D
Before them will be a Eurone,o
war map utterly changed evan
from the heartening prosnect Il
chowed when they last met onl,
three months ago. Italy is a coi
lapsed and politically purged seq.
nent of the once mighty Axis arcn
a liability, not an asset to Nazi
Germany. The U-bcat campaign
in the Atlantic, last high card in
tfe Nazi hand. has been plaved
ard trumped
The Axis satellite framework is
wavering from the Balkans To Fin.
land. Nazi war industry is bomb.
/ shattered shadow of itself. Cumn.
lative Allied blows are blepding
japan of ships and planes and
manpower.
[ But most Of all, in Russia ire.
mendous and expanding Red armv
offensive is rolling weeks before
Washington and London deemed il
possible three months ago. That
must be the primary Circumstance
tnat conditions new Allied battle
directives and strategic concepts
framed in the sixth Roosevelt.
Churchill face to face graphing
with war problems.
If Allied victories IN Africa. Sic.
lily the Aleutians and the Far Pa.
clfic are to be CONSOLIDATED and
their War-shcrtening potentaIte;
,ealized, there can be no point in
pressing new Allied attacks.
Immediate major new moves 10
bolster the Russian offensive and
keep it going relentleSsly into the
coming winter When Nazi battle
prowess falls to its lowest ebb
must stand 1irst on that Allied
strategic conference agenda. What
ever Allied moves can be soonest
I'D most effe ctively implemented
as major divcl sions to draw more
Nazi planes. guns and divisions
from the east must claim first
Allied attention.
Stain has r;sked greatly in hurl-
.ng his armies forward on the at
ltack in July instead of October or
, November. He is battling the once
seemingly invincible wehrmacht
on its own CHOSEN ground and in
its own favored season.
Allied risks to aid that mighty
Red summer drive are now war.
1anted.
| There is one other aspect of the
situation in Europe with which the
coming Allied strategic conference
conceivably might deal effectively.
That is the reduction to concrete
terms of the unconditional surren-
Ger motto.
/ A precise outline of the military
terms on which Italy, the Balkan
Axis satellites or Finland could es-
cape from the war might be drawn
UP at the coming staff conferences.
If it deals with any other element
of the Axis than Italy, however
Russian sanction must be sought.
And the extert to which Russia
is represented in the Britsh-Amer-
lean parleys if disclosed, could
=, 20 far to indicate whether con-
certed Allied-Russ;an attempt 10
b,1ng the war to quick eno IN
Europe is possible,