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railway stations, . great freight yard,
and the Reich Chancellery, the Air
Ministry, the Propaganda Ministry and
the 0estapo headquarters.
Thus the attack had q double pur-
pose-F1rst to interfere with the move
ment Of troops and supplies through
Berlin, especially to check the transfer
Of the troops from the western front
whose trail the heavy bombers have
followed 30 relentlessly all the way from
the Rhine to Berlin. and second, to
smash the nerve center of the whole
Nazi power-system, interfering with the
tight coordination and the constant
flow Of orders from above which Is so
essential part Of the German conduct
of war and particularly so when the
iron hand Of the regime must tighten
its hold on q frightened and even
panicky populace.
We should not expect the results Of
these or other such attacks to be de-
cisive. They will not prevent all troop
movement: what they will do Is to delay
the arrival Of troops ct the time and
place expected. and reduce the num-
bers OF the troops and equipment that
do get there. They will not destroy
me German railways Tor good and all;
tney VIII. however, destroy locomotives
ano CARS tney W11 compel the Germans
70 vase TINE, maser1ai ana LABOR IN
making repairs tney VIII snari up
franc ana compel It 70 pc rerouted-
ana the net result VIII be seen IN Ger.
man mapinty 10 carry out mutary
measures as promptly ana EFFECTIVELY
as they have planned.
Commanders on the eastern front win
ne snrieking Tor the promised reinforce
ments tnat 40 not come: surrounded
garr1sons IN towns IKE Schneidemuhl
will listen In vain for the sound Of
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This Changing World
b. Consf1SfiNs BrofCN

Among the many matters believed to
be on the agenda Of President Roose-
welt and Prime Minister Churchill ct
the meeting Of the "Big Three" d the
question fof . supreme commander In
the Pacific. They will discuss the ad-
Visibility Of appointing high ranking
of1lcer for the overall command Of the
ground, naval and air forces operating
against the japanese.
At present Gen. Eisenhower "a In
supreme command Of MI Allied forces
In Western Europe; Field Marshal Sir
Harold Alexander commands the hete-
rogeneous Allied forces In the Medi-
terranean. But there u not unified
command In the Pacific where the. war
may be expected to expand on several
fronts In the near future.
Up to now there has been no crying
need for an overall command In the
Pacific. The Macarthur Nimitz tie . m
has worked splendidly. From the stra-
tegic point OF view both men agreed
wholeheartedly on the operations We
are now witnessing In the Pacific, while
tactically each commander supported
the other with everything he had at
hts disposal. The result Of this remark
ably close cooperation between the
Army and the Navy commanders has re-
suited in the spectacular successes in
Luzon where the American ground
forces, thanks to the splendid assistance
given by the Navy, are reaching their
detectives well ahead Of schedule.
In the meantime. Admiral Nimitz has
been regrouping some Of his overwhelm-
ing forces for another drive which is
expected to be both spectacular and Inn
portant. For the time being the gen.
eral direction Of the American strategy
points to drive to Tokyo.
4 i 4
In recent weeks, more naval forces
have been added to the already over
whelming American fleets. The Brit
ish are reported to have sent one or
several task fleets to operate under the
command of Admiral Nimitz, while the
Japanese broadcasts speak Of the pres
ence OF French, italian, Dutch and even
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It taught us what liberation means
The European people know. Now we
know.
Liberty is to be safe amongst ones
comrades Liberty Is love.
Yet this incident has no military sig
nificance at ALL
The freeing Of prisoners is usually the
consequence of winning war. Seldom
are prisoners liberated in the course OF
q campaign. No military campaign Is
designed for such q purpose. Prisoners
are among the expendables whose fate
must await the final outcome.
A Commando raid to free prisoners
is hazardous. From a military view
point 1t Is dubious. The enemy Is not
weakened even by its success.
And yet, Of this I am sure, no single
thing that has happened during this
war has 30 strengthened the morale of
our armies and so lifted the hearts of
our people, as this rescue OF q mere
4S6 men,.
For it has removed sting from our
souls
In such q moment no one could ask:
What Is the meaning Of this WARP Why
are we fighting, far away, from our
homeland?
We are fighting to rescue our family,
and warn the world that it Is dangerous
to touch an American. Dangerous be-
cause they are dear to us. So dear that
we viii cross the world to pull 1876 of
them out Of q prison.
The men who carried out that raid
deserved the medals they got. But they
did not need them. After many battles,
some perhaps more dangerous than this,
what will they tell their children? Sol
diers after war are reticent; they speak
little: they try to forget. But this story
they will tell their children and their
grandchildren. 1t will be ever sweet.
Il was once q savior"
Thus, far away on Luzon has been
written q piece Of American folklore
comprehensive to every mind-part of
folklore that gives sense and meaning
to . nation.
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Not the Thinq to Do

The fact that approximately half
OF the 1874 arrested members of the
716th Railway Battalion have al
ready been convicted of selling Army
cigarettes in the French blackmar-
ket would suggest, at first glance,
that an inordinately high proportion
of the American Army is composed
Of young men with definite criminal
tendencies. The arrest Of the 1874
men means that from one fifth to
one-fourth of the battalion's per-
sonnet were operating in the black
market, or were suspected of such
activity. It would be absurd. how
ever, to assume on this basis that
one man in every five in the Army is
a criminal type. How. then, may the
derelictions in the 716th Battalion be
explained?
A dispatch to the New York Herald
Tribune from Russell Hill, one of its
war correspondents. advances the
plausible theory that the attitude of
the offending soldiers is much like
that Of many American civilians
during the prohibition era. They
know that it is technically wrong to
pilfer cigarettes in transit and sell
them in the blackmarket. But, Mr..
Hill says, they do not consider it
morally wrong, but rather look upon
1t as the normal thing to do" Many
Of the men, in the correspondents
opinion, began by selling their own
allotment Of cigarettes. From that,
1t was an easy step to lifting a
carton. and then a case. from the
vast quantity Of cigarettes passing
through their hands.
The evidence at the court martial
proceedings did not indicate that
the men of the 716th prof1ted greatly
from the blackmarket. A high aver
age" Mr.. Hill says, would be $3.50 q
month during q two-month period.
Yet sentences ranging up to forty
I'VE and fifty years Ia prison have
been imposed. Whether these dras-
tic penalties viii be modified when
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Image in q Mirror

The reeds stu IN the dark glass Of the
still canal,
The boat NTH rusted oar Iocks
miSTored there,
Repeated IN chiu illHsioH Of q spstsred
tc0r4,
Perfect and Ats,sss Il ths Htelsss
tCinter air.
Stark iDilloDs from their osrH shsdoDs
IN the glass,
BoG1h and lean Dough, exquisite On
the nsivrore6 stream,
Rise n elegtae silence Of eray iDtndless
AFTERNOON;
Here are THO worlds suspeHdsd h
Nnnsoping dream.
And here The heart, cone suddenly
wp0H this hour
Of hNshed tcaters aMl stjll1ess 81
brO10n so0sber iDe16s,
Cstchss bvssNy tie ssNsctioH 81 Smother
ttBse ~ sun,
Of laughter n . boat G1somg rrees
sxMSer ree6s.
FREDERICK EBRldKT.
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Greek naval units In the South Pacific.
There 70 no ofhcial confirmation that
the ships Of our Allies and former en-
emies are actively participating In the
tight against the laps. But Il Il reason-
able to suppose that some Of them may
have been detailed to the Pacific.
And while It = obvious that the Mac
Arthur -Nimitx team believes that mill.
tary and naval operations eliminating
In landing on the japanese homeland
should continue to be the basis OF the
American strategy, other military heads
are inclined 10 favor . landing on the
Chinese mainland. They suggest such
landing despite the obvious advantage
the Japanese may have because Of their
large forces In China, their well-pre-
pared positions and the much greater
facilities Of overland communication
lines.
Strictly speaking, both Gen. Mac
Arthur and Admiral Nimitz would like to
be left alone. Should the organized re-
sistance Of the Germans end In the near
future, transports, supplies and new
forces could be made available for the
Pacific in few weeks. These would
greatly strengthen the American land
Nklu Ill 1O1CCo--WC duC6Qy lldvS I'LL tIlC
naval forces we need to defeat the
japanese at sea-and we could then
proceed with operations .unhampered by
any political considerations except those
serving the purposes Of this country
alone.
II their uniforms did not prevent
them from speaking out their mind
publicly, 1t is believed that Gen. Mac
Arthur and Admiral Nimitz would say
that at this time the British would help
most by expelling the Japs from
Malaga, Burma and the Netherlands In
dies. where the japanese are strongly
fortified.
The fighting forces in the Pacific are
satisfied with the present setup Should
the leaders who are now gathered far
from Washington decide that su-
preme commander In the Pacific Is
essential to the war effort, it is hoped
that an American will be selected for
that important position.
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Beck to MuniIu

General MacArtnurS return 70
Manila brings US back to what was,
! in sense, the real starting point OF
this war In the Far East.
There was q certain amount Of
wishful thinking in this country
when the Japanese first attacked
the Philippines. Although we knew
that every military advantage lay
with the enemy. the hope persisted
that the American and the Filipino
troops under General Macarthur
would contrive some means Of
checking the invaders, that they
might even throw them back. But
that hope died when the japanese
marched into Manila on January
2, 1912. With the pearl Of the
Orient" in enemy hands, the truth
was too plain to be doubted: The
Philippines were doomed, and no
man could say where the Mikado's
troops might eventually be halted.
That was three years and i've
weeks ago. The Japanese swept on.
conquering thousands of miles Of
the Pacific and driving to the outer
defenses Of Australia, where General
Macarthur had gone to begin the
slow organization Of the counter
offensive that was to redeem his
pledge to return to the Philippines.
There Is no need to dwell on the
deep satisfaction that must be his
as the American flag flies once again
over the heart Of Manila. The
achievement Of General Macarthur
and his men, and that Of the Fill
pinos who have kept up the tight,
are beyond praise. We would be
short-sighted, indeed. however, If
we did not note that the American
Army which has driven from Lin
gayen Gulf to Manila in 26 days is
vastly different army from that
which went down to defeat three
years ago. The difference Is one of
equipment and training and num-
bers. We lost the Philippines be-
cause we were shockingly unready to
defend them, and we have returned
to Manila because our deficiency in
military power has been more than
made good. But it has been costly
experience-too costly II the lesson
of the Philippines is not to be taken
to heart.
Meanwhile, what Of the Japanese7
The boastful Yamashita, who "wel-
coined" the invasion Of Luzon as
offering him opportunity to destroy
the Americans, has put up little
more than token resistance. His
army has been sliced up and now
may be destroyed in detail. There Is
no indication that the japanese can
even pretend to hold Luzon, which
means that in addition to the loss
OF face that accompanies their in
ability to defend Manila, they must
accept the military penalties Incl
dent to American use of Luzon as
a springboard for future attacks
and as a base for the cutting of
japanese supply lines to the south
west.
Only the harshest necessity could
have induced the japanese to &C.
cept this result without the bitterest
f1ghting. And so the liberation of
Manila may be taken as a symbol Of
Japan'S decline, even as its capture
three years ago heralded the open
Ing OF an era of Japanese conquest
that was to stun the Western World
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On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

- captives sick and sunless, all =
lAbouring race repines,
Like q race In sunken cities, like q
nation In the mines.
"And many one grows witless In his
quiet room In hell.
Where Q yellow face look inward
through the lattice Of his cell.
"And he finds his God forgotten, and
he seeks no more a sign
"CBut Don John OF Austria has burst
the battle line)
Don John pounding from the slaugh-
ter-painted poop,
"Purpling all the ocean like = bloody
pirates sloop,
Scarlet running over on the silvers and
the Colds,
Breaking Of the matches up and burst
ing Of the holds,
"Thronging Of the thousands up that
labor under sea,
white for bliss and blind for sun and
stunned for liberty.
"vivat Hispanial Domino gloria!
Don John Of Austria has set his people
free!"
G. X. CHESTERTON, in "Lepanto"
mo incident Of the campaign has
given me such personal satisfaction. I
have awarded the commanding ofIicer
Of the rescue mission the Distinguished
Service Cross, all other officers the
Silver Star, and all enlisted men the
Bronze Star for this heroic enterprise"
Gen. Douglas Macarthur.
r 4
Chesterton,s immortal ballad me-
morializing the campaign Of Don John
Of Austria against the Sultan, whose
armies had engulfed Christendom, ends
with its high note on the rescue Of the
captives And Gen. Macarthur can
we'll say, that above all other triumphs
the incident that gave him most per
sonal satisfaction" was the rescue Of
1876 American prisoners from the Japa-
nese internment camp in Luzon.
Not only the relatives and friends Of
the rescued men "wept for joy" We all
wept. More than all the speeches, and
the bloody battles won, this little Incl
dent lifted our war to point of glory.
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Two-Front Squeeze
By Moi. George Fisldinf Eliot

The German concept Of two-front
war has always been based on the
theory that Germany could deal with
enemy threats in succession, one after
another. and not have to meet co-ordi-
mated blows simultaneously.
Thus the Schlie1en Plan Of the 1905
wAs basically . plan to overwhelm
France by concentrating everything ex-
cept q small eastern covering force
against the French army before the
British could train q large army to come
to the aid Of the French, before the
Russians, with their slower mobiliza-
ton, greater distances and insufficient
railway net, could become q real men,
ace to the eastern frontiers Of Germany.
drive was mishandled, and also because
at the crucial moment the chief of
stan, the younger Moltke, lost his nerve
and switched troops from west to east.
The Hitler plan was based on smash
ing first Poland. then France, and it
worked that far. But Hitler lost his
nerve and failed to attack Britain while
he had the golden opportunity; and
from then on the margin Of success
went increasingly against him, as it
had against the Kaiser after the First
Battle Of the Marine.
The British just managed to pull
through with their fighter command;
the Russians, with the extra time to
prepare gained for them by the daring
British adventure in Greece, just man
aged to make stand In front Of Mos
COW and 80 throw the Germans into q
winter stalemate; and after that there
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Out in the Open

A few years ago public sensibilities
would have made impossible the
type Of publicity inspired by sNa-
tional Social Hygiene Day" But over
the country there are meetings today
for the discussion OF progress made
and plans laid in the fight against
venereal disease, with the annual
luncheon Of the District Social
Hygiene Society merely one Of some
fifteen meetings and three radio
broadcasts in Washington devoted
to the subject. Health Oficer Ruiz
lands encouraging report in yes
terday's Star spoke of the compile
ton, year ago, Of Gallinger Hos
pitfalls 100-bed rapid treatment
center As having given greater
strength and stimulation to 1.-THE
building up Of q community aware
ness Of the city's venereal problem
and the possibilities for successful
control Of this ancient scourge" than
anything yet accomplished. All Of
these things contribute to the crea-
ton Of q public opinion which
frankly recognizes the existence of
venereal disease and its devastating
effect as eradicable and which lends
the weight Of its influence to the
discovery and practice Of the best
means Of eradication. The night is
no longer handicapped by darkness.
It has been brought out into the open
and is beginning to assume the SEM
blance Of q popular crusade.
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American Weapons

HAVAAoN6AA CAAClC lids Uccll COllSlO-
able talk about how Nazi weapons
particularly tanks-are better than
ours, Major General Levin H. Camp
bell, jr., Army ordnance chief, makes
out an impressive case to the contra
~. Returning to this country after
tour OF inspection of the western and
Mediterranean fronts, he quotes
General Eisenhower as saying that
I'VE have general superiority in
quality and quantity" and he cites
testimony from such experts as Gen.
erals Bradley, Devers and Patton to
answer critics who maintain we are
tagging behind the Germans in ar
mored warfare.
AS far as tanks are concerned, &C
cording to General Campbell, Ameri-
can commanders neither need nor
want anything like the Nazis' 73-ton
Royal Tiger. Actually. only 20 Of
these have been encountered so far,
and the men who have come up
against them regard them as me-
chemically inefficient and apparently
not too well adapted to offensive
operations. Celebrating on this point,
General Campbell declares that our
armored forces do not use tanks as
things designed to shoot it out with
other tanks, but as fast mobile weap-
ons meant to slash up lighter forces
behind the enemy's lines. Heavies
like the Royal Tiger can be-and
have been-taken care of by our
tank destroyers, our new assault
tank and other weapons, and no
matter what some critics have been
saying, the simple fact is that Gen
eral Patton and others have told
General Campbell that they just do
not want Royal Tigers of their own.
They prefer lighter models like the
General Sherman, having found
them much more maneuverable and
much more effective for attack pur-
poses.
The proof Of the pudding, after
all. is in the eating. Perhaps, under
certain conditions. the German
Royal Tiger is better than the Cen
eral Sherman, but the overall battle
record since the break through in
Normandy certainly points to any,
thing but enemy superiority in ar
mored warfare, the fact being. as
General Eisenhower has written to
General Campbell, that we have
knocked out twice as many tanks as
we have lost in Western Europe.
Similar figures notably in the field
OF artillery. in which the Nazis have
lost eight pieces to every one lost by
us-can be cited to show that we
have been by no means backward in
developing and using our ground
weapons.
Earlier In the war the Germans
may have had the edge on us IN
certain types of arms, and they may
still have the edge on us in things
like rocket bombs, but on the whole
we certainly have clear superiority
now, qualitatively and quantita-
lively. Our foremost commanders in
the field are unreservedly on record
to that effect, but even if they were
silent on the subject, Germany's
present position would most elo-
quently and most convincingly sup
port General Campbell's claims.
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the war ends remains to be seen.
But for the present they should con-
vince all soldiers that the Army does
not look upon the stealing Of mill
tary goods as "the thing to d." and
1t may be assumed that this was
uppermost In the minds Of the au-
thorities when the severe penalties
were imposed.
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Recruiting Nurses Aides
To the Editor Of The Star:
Your splendid editorial on Nurses
Aides was great help to us In our re-
cruitment drive and I wish to extend
to, you the thanks Of the Public Rela-
tions Department and the Nurses Aida,
Corps.
You will be interested to know we
more than met our quota Of $50 daytime
aides. Over 275 have registered to date
plus $50 night aides.
Many thanks for your generous CO.
operation in making this record pos
sible.
MRS. EDWARD j. FITZGERALD,
Director, Public Relations Dept,
American Red Cross.
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Posfmortem
By David Laurence

from the Memphis Commercial Appsal
Social consciousness dictates realixinR
most folks do not care whether you
wagered on football games and much less
why you lost
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"Tannenbaum. o. Tannenbaum"
Is probably still popular song in
Germany. but anything like ''Tan-
nenberg. o. Tannenberg" has now
lost its one-time great appeal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-02-05

Washington used to have some
right cold winters In the old days,
but 1t lacked the modern double
Freeze" that of Old Man Weather
and the one on. certain goods and
materials.
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Recent events take a good deal of
the punch out of the slang phrase,
ut shouldn't happen to q dogI"
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