The Wrangell sentinel., 1945-05-11
THROUGH THE SENTINEL PERISCOPE

subdue the aggressor German na- ton. which eliminated in an ar mistice, has been completed in this year of 1945. This week the United States and it's Allies are celebrat- ing not an armistice, but complete unconditional surrender of the Ger man war machine. Germany has utterly collapsed and it is signifi- eaRt that it was one of the old Prusslan guard, General Gustav Jodl. who signed the document Of unconditional surrender for the Germans. It was the Prussian gen erals. with their Kaiser, who per petrated the war of 1917 and IS which resulted in the aTmistice. True. the German aggression or this. the second phase of the world war. has been carried on under the guise of Nazism, an atrOciOus phil osophy of destruction and annthila- tion, nonetheless, when the final chips are down history c6..not over look the fact that it was Prus- sian general of the same stripe as those who caused the first world war. who penned tn German sigma ture to the unconditional surrend- CT.
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 Celebration of the Armistice Day | of 1918 was wild without restraint, i and for good cause - the war was over. Celebration of Y-E (Victory | in Europe) May of this year, while cause for jubiliatiOn and re- ioicing, is tempered with the fact that the war is not entirely over. Ii Is only partial victory. Complete victory comes only with the uncon- ditional surrender of Japan. The United States, probably more than any other nation, has cause to feel the war is but half won. We, with our Allies, have yet to wipe out the stain of Pearl HarbOr. While the German war was our war, the Pacific is more our war This is the war which was forced on us by the treacherous stab in the back at Pearl Harbor on December 2, 1S41. This one is our baby. We have yet to see 1t through to total victory. President Truman in prOclatming V-E day declared. Our blows will continue until the Japanese lay down their arms in unconditional surrender" Prime Minister Church i'll. in proclaiming European Vict- ory to the British nation, said: Ja- pan with all her treachery greed remains unsubdued.
 The task is great ahead.
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 Cost of the European victory In dollars and cents is something Tor financiers to figure out, but It's cost in American lives alone again emphasizes the necessity of pre- venting war. A total of 132'OOO members of the armed forces were killed in the European conflict and more than 55O,OOO were casualties . in the three years, four months and seven days of the fighting. The cost in the Pacific will be equally great, if not greater. [
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 It was Roy Howard of the Unit ed Press. now publisher of the New York World Telegram, who jumped , the gun two days early with the news of the armistice Of 1918. HlsA report was officially premature It . was Edward Kennedy, chief Of the Associated Press staff on the west eru front. who was on the beam with first report of the uneondttton- hl surrender this time. kennedy wasn't wrong. He had 1t down to sfhe minute and details, but was ssquelched by the high command ioE 3springing it to a waiting "oFlu without waiting for formal confirm ation AP has never enjoyed that I'D break of 1918. It was determin- ed AP. would be first this time. It was. thanks to a sweet piece of re- porting by Ed Kennedy.
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 While we are celebrating V-E day and looking forward to the greater celebration of V-J day (Vle- tory over Japan day), 1t appears private political war has broken out right under our noses which future Alaska historians doubtless will re- fer to as IMW Q'm Mad Walker), day. Unfortunately, Senator Doe" Walker of Ketchikan, in declaring his war on Gov. Ernest Gruening, chose VIE day to make his an- nouncment to the world, through the Juneau Empire, that he was leading the forces of aggression. Nearly everybody else was too con- cerned with V-E day to bother, but the Empire. with it's remarkable acumen for judging news, gave Doe" top position with the Euro pean victory. It's an interesting