The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-28
interpreting
The War
BY k1RKE L. SIMPSON
associated Press War an,,

Approach of the second anni'' '
sary OF Pearl Harbor find, W. 81
aster closing in on the Gern N.Y.
Japanese authors of that "da ,,'''l.
infamy." Jay Of
Pledges voiced in that dark IT,.
are being redeemed to the la a4a'
not alone in the Pacific, bnt mug q
the Atlantic, the Mediterr w. u
the Indian ocean, in the ' ce;r
sea- and in Russia, Italy and Gu.
many. WIN 9ef'
The hour when Tokyo can !.
air blitzed as have been Han,b,.' W
Berlin and a dozen otber Ms
cities no longer is remote ,r 3,a4
derous preludes for that ara '' u.
ing sounded from New Guine. We
the Marshall Islands as tbo sr %
attack advances. The expan Miiea
power of the United Nation
bringing offensive warfare at jsa
Strain In Germany
1t is in Germany. boweye, a.
the strain of approaching d. s,',
Tor the crumpling Nazi.Nipnone'aI.
AXIS falls most heavily, tigbtenss
almost to a breaking tenSion -I ~
staggering military defeats in prs
STA and the devastating AJ ts,i
air blasting of Berlin. ''''e0
Nor can Hitler's general ,ro..
ly doubt that the Allied. Russo =, va,
war fellowship is about to h. ra
sealed by highest authority " me- ~
haps soon enough to make n pr',
December 7 day to be reca ,La,
with rejoicing by all liberty lovina
mankind in starkest contrast =
the onnens of Japanese infsr,,
that blackened that date in 1941
On that December 7 PusSi.n J..
tenders of Moscow were batfina y
sub-zero temperatures to Save !,
from a seemingly invincible Cer'
man army. Now Red armies ever
where are On the attack: the mvth
of Nazi military invincibiltv has ~
burst like soap-bubble: the Puc.
sian offensive now is unparalleled
in history in scope and power,
Almost two years ago Prime
Minister Churchill on a sunrise
visit to Washington told Congres,
it should be possible to undertake
a worldwide Allied offensive in
1943. This December his forecast
is being proven in every war thea,
ter. Anglo-American sea power
dominates the seven seas and Al.
lied air rules the skies over Ev.
rope and Asia.
battle-ground
Italy has become a bloody Al.
l1ed-Nazi battle-ground. A dragging
German military liability instead
of an asset in the struggle. A
powerful and growing French ar.
my based in Corsica, poised to
strike into France itself against
Nazi invaders. Greece and the
Balkans seethe with anti-Nazi up.
heavals as does France, the low
countries, Norway and even lit,
tie Denmark.
Portugal has become an unavow.
ed partner of the Allied to turn
her Azores island group into
security bastion for war shipping
in the Atlantic. Turkey is close
to like cooperation. Bulgaria and
Rumania, dangerously close now
to the approaching Russian war
front, are too weak to offer any
real support to Nazi military
might.
And to cap it all, in Britain
mighty Allied army is awaiting
only the signal of its high CON-
mand to folloW-through across the
channel in a crunching second
front attack to destroy Germany
in Russian-Allied wise that Is
about in position to squeeze the
whole continent of Europe.
Viewed from Tokyo by the Jap
anese militarists who fashioned the
attack on Pearl Harbor two years
ago, the war scene must look
terribly overcast now The Amer,
lean fleet that was DESTROYED
by Tokyo proclamation that da?
is on the move westward agalnA
Japan, expanded many fold II
every class of fighting ship ano
surface or air auxiliary.
Nipponese naval power Is ID
hiding from the wrath Pearl Har
Dor kindled. 1t dare not FISK 0a'
tie to which it is being chaLeAE
ed from east and south.
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