The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-22
interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON

uiah lroops' appeared a minor mil.
itary incident in a war week hnna.
ing everywhere with bigger nav
except for its potential phycholna
ical significance, yet to be tost.,
elsewhere in the Pacific on IoS
er scale.
The outstanding fact about th..
enemy evacuation of his last ,;a'
impotent foothold in the Alont;ar
was that it was retreat, tn. five.
Japanese retreat of this war Mn
ponese forces have heretofar.
mostly lied where thew stood
Guadalcanal, in New Guinea
Munda, on Attu, wherever ~.
Tightening coils of Allied oountas
offensives have gripped them M.
Tokyo war lords left them 10 om
ulate the motto of Napoleon's al,
guard that it could die hut ro1a
surrender or retreat.
Flee Through Fog
This time, and on Tokyo ord,n.
the japanese fled through the 70,
and the Nipponese futile bu+ .rda
cious attempt to threaten the uos.
ern hemisphere with invasion ~,
air attack was at an end Thu,
makes Kiska regained the svnbo,
of the ebbing Axis tide in tbs po
rifle as conquered Sicily symbo,izo.
it's backward flow in the Med;tnr
ranean, as Stalingrad marked a..
crest of German attack in Russi,
and tottering Kharkov it's scce,er
ating recession
The core Of war interest for III.
week, however, continued IN ho
the Quebec war council of tba Al
lied highest command. Not evo,
the Russian offensive nor bin,s
from London that a continental in.
vasion by British-American forces
was close at hand diverted ei+bor
Allied or Axis attention from III.
meeting here of President Rooso.
welt and Prime Minister Churcbiu
to put their seal upon new s-ra.
tegic directives of global srns
prepared by their military stats
What can be said to inform A.
lied publics Of what has been plan.
ned and still retain the essential
element nf surprise when the con.
templated new attacks are deliver.
ed in Europe, the Pacific or in
eastern Asia, the two leaders will
make known from here next week.
They were rounding out the mill.
tary design over the weekend with
politico-military consultations with
their chief officers for foreign al.
fairs, Secretary Hull and Anthony
Eden.
First Operation
For their own reasons, and incl.
dent to the fact that Kiska repre-.
sented the first exclusively Am.
erican-Canadian operation, Mr.
Roosevelt and Prime Minister King
of Canada announced from Quebec
the Japanese flight from Kiskq
and its occupation by strong joint
forces. That followed the tech.
nique employed by Mr.. Roosevelt
and Mr.. Churchill at Hyde Park in
disclosing the sinking of enemy
submarines in the Atlantic over
the last three months at one
day rate.
That information. so far as The
logistics of the war in Europe cr
any effort to step up at Quebec
in both time and weight the attack
on the Axis held continent Of Flu.
rope, was the key to the Quebec
It's disclosure IN ad.
vance of the presidents arrival heve
virtually meant that the way Was,
lear for the invasion Of Euro
rom the west as we'll as from ii
south. provided other data being
assembled in Quebec made that fea
.ible this year. That probahly il
Is far as it will be possible fot
The announcement. of confercnae
results to go.
There was on, other dovalon,
ment, ossde from the Kiska week
end thrill, which must he notod in
a review of the developn ents NJ
the week. There may be r7a'
not as yet apparent.
That is the first press call in
Russia for a Roosevelt-Churchill.
Stain face-to-face meeting to plan
coordinated Allied-Russian opera
tions desisn,d to end the war in
Europe this year 1t came in an
editorial in a workers magazine in
which virtually means II
had the sanction Of the Krcmlin.
There was no reaction in QUa6e'
to this Russian triple.confereno'
feeler. None was necessary. MI
Roosevelt and HIT. Churchill have
made it kntwn repeatedly tHi
they have long hrped foo such
meeting to c'inch the Unite1 Aa'
ton attack on the Axis. II PFelnlH
Stain now desi"3s to paf-i ip'.
in a super-st a'rg1c confer lc'' -
has but to ad Tise Washin-, -,toh IT
Lp ndon of the fact.
And the Japanese evacuation
Kiska, if it's implications Of var
ing Japanese assurance Of abN
to hold her ill-gotten territoHi
gains, let alone regain the OLE
sive anywhere, are borre
could influence Russias attitud'
would carry with it for Mosco
hint of defeatism beginnir,y to ~
root in Japan as well as In nI
even in Germany, and rertoD+,
AXIS Balkan sate'litcs
might we'll induce Moscow 70 o'
card the noSS;hi1ifv Of 4 Japan