The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-01-01
OF 1922;
 PROSPECTS FOR 1943
By Charles Honee

that the United Nations are on the offensive on virtually all fronts.
 In Russia. in Africa, in the Southwest Pacific-in the air, on land and on the sea-the Allies are beginning to crowd the Axis in the first real show of concerted global strength.
 A year ago only Russia had ta- ken the offensive at Rostov. Else where the United Nations-few fewer than today's thirty = were suffering a series of tragic and humiliating defeats.
 A year-Spurred by the vast pro- ductiYeness of America. the dogged defense of Russia and British block busting air raids-has seen the tide turn
 In a general sense there was only one big story this year-the war Almost every happening of moment was tied up directly or indirectly with the main event. Likewise there were so many stories of an important or dramatic nature that even by telescoping and combining It Is impossible to fit them into a formal ten best" as in other years A dozen make a very minimum.
 Here is the news roll call for l942-based on the selections of AP editors, over whose desks flow mil lions of words a week:
 l. A Second Front" ia opened CNov. O-At the very moment dis cussion of a second front was at white heat, the greatest amphibious expedition in history, involving 850. shlps, vast American Army ac- countered with 700.000 articles of war, was converging on North Af- riea to make it a fact This invasion combined with Britain's smash of honmel, gives the United Nations springboard for European at- tack. North African aftermaths saw Germany occupy the rest of France and the scuttling of most of the French Navy.
 z. America takes offensive in Pa cltlc-When the Navy released the oIood-chilling pictures and story of Pearl Harbor. America already wasI secure in the knowledge that tbaI sneak attack had been avenged that the Japanese had suffered series or disastrous defeats climaxed bv the destructive Solomon Islands an gagement (Noy. 13-15). and that American forces were on the offen- slYe on GuadalcanaI and in the New 1ulhea. American victories in Incl coral Sea and Midway battles voroi previous omens of Pacific recovery.
 .. Russia Hold and Counter-At- tacks - On. Sept. 30 Hitler shont- ed that Stalingrad was a oit,
 "hleh We shall take; you may de- pend on it." But the Fuebrer uvos wrong again. The Verdun of World war II held through four terrif;a months of Nazi assault and tkaa almost rom it's battered buildinps came an amazing Russian offensi1o lhat spread like wildfire aIong tbo vast Russian front s'
 4. Japan CarYes Out an amniro AItef mouthing about it's rroa+ou East Asia CO-Prosperity snbero son years. Japan set out foreibIv to r.ia I tb anu ald. In few short months the Nipponese oyerran tba wboi9 oi the south Pacific and were bot terlhg at the gates of Anstra1io nish spots in this sweep of oon quest Were the fall of stra+ogia the stubborn Anoriao1 resistance at Bataan. and Gov nIa ~
 eiiur escape to Australia.
 9. 2-Party Government Strenotb ehed In U. s. (Nov. 3)-A favor;te theme of some alarmists was tbotI american two-party governnant Was a dead duck. We'll, the Pannb leans not only came back in tha oli-year elections to greatly strength en their Congressional power bnt provided evidence of a coming struggle. nlns m Q. TOKYO Is Bombed (April 18l- me Germans took FDR strictly at HIS word when they broadcast that TOKYO had been bombed bv Amari. Az pi p,ahes based on Shangri-La. Ana Shangri-La it remains,
 ', America Goes On Wartime Ec. onoihV - One cup of coffee A day perhaps may epitomize America; e conversion to wartime basis with every citizen touched by A vast svv. tenn or price controls. wage stoh. i1llasion ind t and rationing. accompan- eI .e oy zooming taxes. An inciden- utn ,aI phase was the passing of the
 O. oaDoteurs Executed (Aug. S) SIX or eight Nazi saboteurs who came ashore from German snbmar-
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