The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-09-02

1t might be better this week to call
this column the Battle Axe.
Anyway, the purpose is to talk about
the Russians, etc, and not entirely in
spirit of brotherly love and mutual
acceptance of bunk.
Recently writer pointed out that
the Commies always talk about soviet
since to exist, or they talk about the
soviets, which dittoed, or the Union of
Socialistic Republics, which contains
double mis-statement.
| But be those matters as they are.
we keep getting the clamor and yam
mer for Il second front.
We can give the Russians credit for
all the magnificent heroism they have
shown, but we do NOT HAVE to be
taken by Communist propaganda and
double talk Let's stop being political
babes in the woods.
The one great big-post-war issue is:
What will Russia do then?
Perhaps the foretaste is in that con-
stant clamOr for second front.
We HAVE second front. OF course
the party-liners belittle the Sicilian
conquest just as they belittled the con-
quest of North Africa.
| But the minute United Nations
| troops landed in Africa the second
front was there-a pOwerhOuse full
of it.
That second front, as it moved on
into Sicily, knocked Mussolini off his
throne and Hitler once prOphesied that
| if Italy fell Nazi Germany might as
well throw in the sponge.
You don't see Stain going to meet
with Roosevelt and Churchill, even
| though he COULD do it. You just
hear that constant echo calling for a
second front, like refrain-a sort of
chorus to verses not yet written.
Let's keep the binders off our eyes
as we read the recurring demand.
Well, we have not just one second
front We have two-big ones!
Moscow to the contrary nOthwith-
standing, the Africa -Sicily-ROad to
Berlin invasion was no toy job.
And it isn't some ghOStly thing that
| is knocking German cities down, one
after the other. Those cities are being
Il front that flies.
When the Russians talk about a
second front they seem to be talking
about ground troops and ground troops
only.
| Perhaps, because of the nature of
their own war, they think more in
terms of ground fighting that do some
other nations.
| But Il front that flies can level a
| city or knock out Il factory or Il rail
road with much more ease and speed.
And war today doesn't have any
rules about where your explosives
come from, as long as they land in the
fright places
The world is getting lesson in air
lpower The front that flies is the most
potent front of all in this war
| And let Joe Stain remember this !:
| That flying front is the ONLY front
that has done any damage to Germany
| in Germanys own back yard.
| One of the latest flights from Eng
| land was an hour in passing Il given
point.
That's not just playing around, Mr..
Stain. That's Il flying front.
A lot of Americans probably are
good and tired of Stalin's peevish
Swapping for a second front. Well,
| let's say so, then.
That's not creating discord between
allies; that is keeping down the seeds
of diScord. For if we get egged along
enough, told to do what is tactically
lwrong to do, and perhaps suicidal,
| THAT can create lot of discord.
| Is it that there is some other pur-
pose than the mere asking for more
second fronts?
If not, then we can stand to hear no
more about it, while our front in the
air is for the first time in all modern
history, kicking Germany to Slithers
right INSIDE OF GERMANY. Our
Second fronts are doing all right for
themselves, Mr.. Stalin.-tMW.