The Wilmington morning star., 1944-10-28
interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE l.. s,Mps,..
Associated Prose W.. ooN

Associated Press War asN,
Battle colors in all tba aslys
trous, silken glory, streake d'' t. Ill.,
stats of American warsh u l'0a
the winds Of all the sev ,.ups ii
on Navy day in salute MT sea- sea
to the 1esth anniversary ' " only
service and heroes of other VI W., III
but in proud recognition NJ wars
comrades VINO met and v aoi.
Japan's imperial flight in p rs9'a
pine waters. " fnlAN
Wherever they are, wbat...
! their duties, Friday was a dss
exultation for all those a uss O
aloft, afloat or in the waters 4v ne
der the sea whose greatest 's ~. ~
is the USN that marks thenp '. 4.
what they are. 1t was a dav law T.. 10
when those who died becaus,. y" :,
Japanese treachery at Pearl u, q
Dor could sleep in the sure kr ns''
ledge that they did not d H,l0s'
vain. Gallant comrades .ra .
rying the war conceived in "a.
anese infamy back to her a sap
step. W.T.
The score sheet Of the t,,,
Philippine battle is vet IN \. "a
filled in. As it stands this , d.|
however, it records st,,ra aas'
lop-sided showing in Ameri.,ss
favor. There are intimatins.4
backed by hurry-up gathers,
Of the highest command in T0tres
of impending withdrawal Of A.
battered Japanese fleet remnan.'
from South China sea waters
Some face-saving gesture NJ
high command Reorganization IN
Tokyo is to be expected. The spas
tering blow to the imperial fleet
even though a powerful portion
of it still remains afloat to tisb,
again, mas reduced it to a strr,
ly defensive weapon, to virtual o.
fensive impotence. 1t has ut
Japan in little better fix than Ce,
many, which Hitler admits il
battling no longer for victory
but only in hope Of wearing dow,
Russian and Allied will TO en-,
force the grim demands for u,.
conditional surrender.
Warnings against ANTICIPATED
Nazi efforts to induce softer peace
proposals were implicit in Prin.
Minister Churcnilrs report 10
Parliament on his recent Mos
COW session with Marshall Sta.
lin. Churchill left no doubt that
ne had found Russian resolve 10
carry the fight through to the Bit
ter end for Germany unshaken;
that whatever lack Of complete
agreement in Russian-Allied coun.
ellis on other points there may be,
there is none on that.
And as he spoke, the pattern
of converging Russian and Alsi
attacks to break through the In
ner walls of NaZi defenses was
clearly taking shape as was the
still widening scope of the An.
erican naval victory over Japan
Important militarily as in the
Russian penetration into the heart
of German junkerism in East
Prussia or the vast Red army
approach to the middle Danube
in Hungary and Yugoslavia, Rus
sian bridgeheads driven across the
Vistula just north of Warsaw have
greater potential significance i
is here the Russians stand near
est Berlin.
Russian renewal OF the pres
sure in the Warsaw sector came
just as Allied troops nj Holland
famed out to clear their left
flank in obvious preparation for
greater operations eastward once
the foe has been driven from the
Schelde estuary and the left bank
of the Mas. It seems nque''
tionable that little delay in the
launching Of a full scale British
American effort to break through
or turn the northern end Of the
Nazi Siegfried line is to be eS'
pected. Winter is drawing 100
close in western Europe to admit
of much delay if that foreshad0N.
ed climatic stroke is to fall AZ
all this wear.