The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-11
interpreting
The War
BY kIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press W. sun

.1 against :rs the background nl a!
Big Three" conferen emu Of IN
where in the Black Se s.''e SONG
war in Europe moved , area II.
end. WI 0afy Week
All Nazi Germany was ...
by monster Russian ~! s',,qpet
wise reaching from the S Spi.! ALLIED
der to the Neder Rhine in % tbs 00''
and from the Vienna sso 1't e west
estuary OF the Oder in tbo 10 n.
within days, the world will iT east
%netner the end Of the killag N .s,
destruction is close at hang and
whether Nazi Leadership -i !. o.
able to fend off complete co,,. SUI
until spring thaws halt tbo
lacking armies. VIC st
The time margin within yb,.,
shatter organized German WYNN NJ .
;s aila ueS'loy Inc Wehrmara
more than a month rersin .Ngca
fore rising temperatures will iS We
the unprecedented SHOWS Of S Il.
winter rushing to the sea tbr, lS
every river valley in ea,tsrs
western and southern Eurons s', VT
run-off is apt to turn fjeI6, ! .a,
dirt roads into all but imns S a.a
boys. 1t certainly is amon e''s W.
factors on which the Maj III; as
command is counting hesyily r". 81
avert yet a little while the c+o.1
accounting that awaits it. WI"
But that time factor aIso :.
less a vital element in the y pn NV
slan-Allied military commitr,sr.,
exchanged by Churchill. Roosaro,,
and Stain as the first bushes, NJ a.
their Black Sea area meeting ~.
broad directives they laid donv away
1or immediate and concerted A.
ton by the mighty armies rinom,
Germany are based unquestionsbiss
on mutual agreement TO st~its
boldly and in all-out force 10 brins
the war to a military decision he.
fore the SHOWS melt.
That was discernible IN the di,
closure that with the military IN.
erations phase of the conference
concluded, the three leaders and
their advisory stats turned at once
to blueprinting plans for the o..
cupation and pacification Of cor.
quored Germany. They may sou,
be needed. When needed they nus
be ready in sufficient detail and
sufficiently flexible to meet sw
situation that may arise in Ger.
many after the fall of the Weir.
mactt or its dismemberment and
dispersion.
What happened in Greece after
the Nazis had been driven out was
grim object lesson to the three
elder statesmen of the United Ma.
tons to contemplate as they work.
ed on plans for dealing with Ger.
many. Anarchy and Chaos which
may follow upon a military defeat
of Germany should be promptly and
sternly suppressed. For Britain
and the United States, at least
there still will be other and blood
work to do in the Pacific.
Indirectly if not directly the Al.
lied war against Japan must have
entered into Black Sea three-p0W-
er conversations. With Manll
again in American hands and re.
conquest of all Luzon in sight the
chance to speed-up operations
against Japan by many months
has come far ahead Of schedule
To seize it, however, completion
of the victory i'll Europe must be
expedited to release British and
American fighting power from The
European theater for concentrate
in the Orient.
Tuzon rewon till be long S'eI
on the way to final total defeat o
Japan; but it is only a step. B.
every criterion of experience tn
biggest battles of the Allied-Jap
anese war are yet to be fought a
sea, in the air, in China and i
the islands of Japan.
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