The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-31
interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War A.

Assoc,a'e" fless War ANALYST
The ideas of November are ~"
to be feared in Germany for WIZ.
they bode for the future than "Hss
their defeat memories Of rs yea sof
ago. 'eaf'
A year ago the battle Of stor.
grad was flaming to its bei p+l'
Axis troops stood upon the b snt'
Of the Volga and Hitler was tr ranS
peting that they never would Iasu i''
Not many did leave there aI'.
except as Russian war pglsonsrs '
The Germans are west Of ~
Dn1eper now and still retre.tin'
Just a year ago, and as a tirns s;
prelude to the Allied landjng 10y ~
North Africa, the reborn BTitis -,
Eighth Army now storuing it, '- Nl
relentlessly up the right flank ~ =.
the Italian peninsula was hegiu -"
ming to strike back at Rommer.
African corps at Ell Alamein ss
miles from Alexandria. VI
Inc huge Allied pincer stt,o,,
that was to sweep the Mediter,
ranean clear of the Axis foes L,,oa,'
Italy out of the war, crack tba
Axis in Europe apart and on ,.,s
the short road to India and Brrn oa
for Allied troops, was startinp 10 q
gigantic squeeze. 1t has cleared
all Africa and nearly half of ItalS
now. 1t points with deadly men.
ace by land, sea and air at south
ern France, at Greece and w.
Balkans and at Germany Wv
A year ago in the Atlantic N,,i
U-boats were cutting horrffvnn
gaps in the Allied vital supply line
to Britain and to Russia sinns
that last November regained Az
lied domination of the sea has az az
tablished, just across the channel
from the Nazi-conquered continent
the forces for invasion from IN.
west, as Russian armies breacbins
the crumbling Dnieper front sre
marching from the east.
In the Pacific year ago Jan.n,.
grip upon the island outworks a,
her conquest zone was being cb.I
lenged only on Guadalcanal in tbs
Solomons. The first American 1
thrust to wrench that critical air
base from enemy hands still was
unconsolidated. Australia was in
dire peril.
Now all the Solomons and vir.
tually all Of the vital sectors a,
New Guinea have been cleared Of
Nipponese. The final stroke that
will sweep him out of Rabaul is
close at hand. The Aleutians have
been retaken. There is every eyj.
dence that American initiative soon
will fire the Central Pacific into
a blaze Of action.
Further, Tokyo war-lords may
well wonder whether behind the
Moscow tri-partite conferences and
the crushing German defeats in
the west, may not be the day
when a victorious Russia will join
the United Nations war fellowship
in Asia to complete japanese en-.
circlement.
These are but the highlights Of
the year that has gone by since
last November on the war fronts
Of even deeper significance at The
moment is the increasing evidence
Of deepening gloom in Germany
over the war outlook, reflected
even by the chosen voice of
Nazism, Herr Goebbels.
He has had no German victory
to chronicle for a full year, only
defeats to explain and minimize.
And now, as another November
18th nears, he has set up the thesis
that Allied plans called for Ger
man equalization on that 25th an.
niversary of German surrender in
World War One.
Goebbels now says he sees no
sign of a German internal crack
up. But unquestionably something
is stirring in Germany under the
growing weight of military defeat
and the nerve-shattering bombing
attacks. Just what that something
| is NAV he far clearer before an