The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-24

The War !
by hIkhE l.. sIMpsuw
Associated Press War an.,

The terrific fighting in D..
is surging toward a crisis =.
calcuable effect upon the II
duration.
A Red army moose is drsv.l
tighter about an estimated III
million Nazi first line t.oops II
of the Kremenchug bulge IN y
Dnieper bend and in the cri,,,t
The whole right flank ot
German line in the east is to.
ing by Berlin admission, Soo 1vi.s
collapse the entire length Of '1 y
Nazi front in Russia from tbe d,
Sea to the Baltic must cava lay
Russian entrapment and snris
lation of greater army tbar n.
Nazis lost at Stalingrad n ~
have tremendous effects in ' W..
many. Neutral observation n m
in Europe already report 5 pssN
symptoms in the Reich F'
Blacklist OF War
They painted this last wse,
the blacklist of the war for g..
many. 1t topped off an Limo.
cycle of defeat unbroker
single minor victory for the AZ,
integrating Nazi-Fascist.Jananra.',
Axis. '0"'a
Informed Allied officials Of In,
residence in Germany said tro,
the inception of the war that or
these two events could lead IA
German internal crack-up: a d.
perate winter food situation !.
Germany as in the first war W.
ter, or a crushing military defe,
destroying German public faith
the Nazi army and its leadersbr
Food stocks looted from ros
quered or satellite states boIlla,
the German home front na,
against starvation-born defeafen
There is no reason yet to believe
that German public morale hss
been sufficiently shaken on t1,,
score nor sufficiently broken NV
Allied air attacks to Warrant ey,
pectation of an early popular u.
rising against Hitler.
German war industries hay,
been cumulatively mauled from
the air to foresladow comms
day when the warmakiag powe,
of the Reich will have been Grim.
pied enough to open the roads ia
Berlin from east, south and west
That day also is not yet in sgbf
although Nazi divisions in Russa
and in Italy are paying a terrific
price for lack OF equipment par.
ticularly in the air, to meet tbs
ever-groWing strength of Russian
and Allied forces.
The other element that might
break the back of German public
will to fight on or longer endure
the Nazi yoke is present. A disas,
ter in Russia that could SKATER
army as well as civilian morale
coming on top of the Stalingrad
defeat, of Tunisia, the loss of all
Africa and the Mediterranean, and
of Sicily and Italy's collapse Il
join the ranks of Nazi foes;
conceivable in the Dnieper bend
battle.
May Break With Fuehrer
There are many signs, too, thai
German generals of the old school
never ideologically aligned with
Hitler and Nazism and ever lea
lous of Nazi-lnade military rival,
in nigh command posts, may be
! approaching the breaking pol,
with Der Fuehrer and his follow,
ers.
1t may be that already Hitler
has been set aside in fact if mt
nominally and that beneath the
surface the German military caste
is creeping for some formula on
which to escape total military de-
feat by capitulation,
it has certainly done nothing 10
distort the bad news from Russia
or Italy for German home con-
sumption. Every press report from
BERLIN to neutral capitols and all
monitored German broadcasts Tor
days have reflected increasing
gloom over the military situation
1t seems to be an obvious effort
to prepare German public opinion
for something. But what the some
thing is cannot yet be discerned'