Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-29

Herr Hitler.
The short lived German offensive,
launched early this month, was a
desperate attempt to bolster the
morale of the German people The
Russians were not fooled by this.
They went ahead with their own
plans for attack-plans which CO.
ordinate with the whole United
Nations offensive strategy.
The world has never seen greater
devotion, determination and self
sacrifice than have been displayed
by the Russian people and their
armies, under the leadership of Mar
shall Joseph Stain.
With a nation which, in saving
itself is thereby helping to save all
the world from the Nazi menace
this country should always be glad
to be good neighbor and sincere
friend in the world of the future.
In the Pacific we are pushing the
Japs around from the Aleutians to
New Guinea. There, too, we have
taken the initiative-and we are
not going to let go of 1t.
1t becomes clearer and clearer
that the attrition, the whiting
down process against the japanese
is working The Japs have lost
more planes and more ships than
they have been able to replace.
The continuous and energetic
prosecution of the war of attrition
will drive the Japs back from their
over-extended line running from
Burma and Siam and the Straits
Settlement through the Netherlands
Indies to Eastern New Guinea and
the Solomons. We have good reason
to believe that their shipping and
their air power cannot supper; such
outposts.
Revision of Plans
Suggested to japanese.
Our naval. land and air strength
in the Pacific is constantly growing
If the Japanese a"e basing their
future plans for the Pacific on a
long period in which they will be
permitted to consolidate AID explicit
their conquered resources, they had
better start revising their plars now
I give that to them merely as help
full suggestion.
We are delivering planes and vital
war supplies for the heroic armies of
Generalissimo Chang Kai -shek, and
we must do more at all costs.
Our air supply line from india to
China across enemy territory con-
tinues despite attempted japanese
interference. We have seized the
initiative from Japan in the air over
Burma and now enjoy superiority.
We are bombing Japanese COM
nunlcatlons, suppl du-lps and bases
in China, Indo-China ard Burma.
But we are still far from our main
objectives in the War against japan.
Let us remember how far We were
year ago from any OF our detectives
IN the European theater. We are
pushing forward to OCCUPATION of
positions which in time will enable
us to attack the japanese islands
themselves from the north. from
the south, from the east and from
the west.
You have heard it said that while
we are succeeding greatly on the
hghtlng front we are falling miser-
ably on the home front. This is
another of those immaiulities-a
false slogan easy 10 state but un-
true in the essential facts.
For the longer this war goes on
the clearer it becomes that no one
can draw a blue pencil down the
middle of page and call one side
the fighting front" and the other
side "the home front" The two of
them are ineXorably tied together.
United Nations Agreed
On Postwar Detectives.
Every Combatant division. every
naval task force, every squadron of
fighting planes is dependent for its
equipment and ammunition and
fuel and food, as indeed it is for
it's manpoWer, on the American
people in civilian clothes in the
Offices and factories and on the
farms at home.
The same kind of careful planning
that gained victory in North Africa
and Sicily is required if we are to
make victory an enduring reality
and do our share in building the
kind of peaceful world which will
justify Che sacrifices made in this
war
The United Nations are substan-
TALLY agreed on the general objec-
tives for the postwar world. They
are also agreed that this is not the
time to engage in an international
discussion of all the terms of peace
and all the details of the future
We must not relax our pressure on
the enemy by taking time out to
define every boundary and settle
every political controversy in every
part of the world. The all-impor-
tant thing now is to get on with
the war-and to win it,
While concentrating on military
victory, We are not neglecting the
planning Of the things to come, the
freedoms which we know will make
for more decency and greater JUS
tice throughout the world
Among many other things we are
today, laying plans for the return
to civilian life of our gallant men
and women in the armed services
They must not be demobilized into
an environment of imitation and
unemployment, to a place on a
bread line or on corner selling
apples. We must. this time. have
plans ready-instead of waiting to
do a hasty, inefficient and ill-con-
sidered job at the last moment.
I have assured our men in the
armed forces that the American
people would not let them down
when the war is won.
hope that the Congress will help
in carrying out this assurance, for
obviously the executive branch of
the Government cannot do it alone
May the Congress do its duty in this
regard. The American people will
insist on fulfilling this American
obligation to the men and women
in the armed forces who are win
ming this war for us.