The Wilmington morning star., 1944-07-23
interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Ara,u,,

40" war Analyst
Events within Germany and !,
pan that have rocked the w.,
weary world with breathless sn.
ulation, could hold more cert.,.
clue to the probable duratio, =,
the struggle. not only in Furon.
but beyond the Pacific. than ~
war progress maps themselve, Wv.
reveal.
The topping tall of the Toio us,
cabinet in Tokyo was born NJ on
rn,lative Japanese defeats in ~.
Pacific and Illustration in cbi1o
There is reason, too, for assuni,,
that it also reflects acceptance bS
Japan's military caste. even +.
fore Hitler's narrow escape from
death at German hands cGnc,sa
it. of the fact that their Nazi WV
accomplice is doomed.
The TOTO ministry, authors -
that ill-omened Nazi-Nippoaese a.
lance, has paid the price for Il,
utter misjudgment of the scers i.
war-wracked Europe as we'll As it,
own bitter defeats. New nationsl
helmsmen have been summoned Nv
imperial decree to salvage wb.,
they could from the wreckage NJ
Japanese conquest hopes.
How they will attempt it is sin
TO be revealed, but the task a.
signed them is clear. It is not IN
seal a victory but to find some.
Row, somewhere an escape from
total defeat.
1t is an inescapable conclusion
that Tokyo's cabinet crisis stem.
med in part out of more intimate
knowledge of the seething under.
current of alti-Nazi revolt in Ge,
many than any other government
possessed. Communication b.
tween Tokyo and Berlin has been
retained even though hope Of &C.
tual contact between the two ends
of the Axis long ago died,
The world learned of that inter.
nal crisis in Germany certainly
cniy when Nazi broadcasts told Of
the. attempted assassination Of Hit.
Ter. Japan well may have known
fol- weeks or even months that it
was brewing. The fall of Tojo
synchronized too closely with Nazi
revelation of rising panic over dis.
] affection on the home front and
even among the fighting forces be.
ing rolled back by the Russian Of
fensive avalanche to doubt som.
connection.
By every military dictum word
hot alone of the attack on Hitler
but of a situation even within Ger,
man armies approaching open war.
fare between their Nazi leaders
and echelons and the non-poGtical
commanders and troops h ould
/ have been withheld from external
enemies. But it was not. Hitler
! and his panic-stricken Nazl aSsO.
ciates dared not delay in alertins
! party police cohorts, breathing dire
! threats of a new orgy of purge
blood letting, ordering out-othand
executions. The radio, and Hit.
, ier's own voice over it, afforded
the only means of reaching not
only all Germany but troops atar
in the field quickly enough.
That resort to radio alone was
i sufficient to inform the world that
in Nazi judgment itself the peril
If an anti-war, a1ti-Hitler, ant.
Nazi uprising in Germany, even in
+ The army, was very real and very
+ great. But it was not the only
| evidence of Nazl panic. Hitlers
prompt summons to Himmler, his
/ chosen trigger man, the most
blood smeared figure in modern
history, to take over with life or
oe7th powers, is the most convinc-
ing evidence of all that the spirit
of revolt runs deep within Ge:-
many and that sheer panic IS
c'utching at the hearts of Hitler
and his like.