The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-12
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Vice President
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Advanced Allied Headquarters,
 April 11-CUP)-The Allies today are able to go any place, any time in western Germany as the Reich is undergoing mas destruction.
 This attitude was expressed many times in the last week by top-rank- ing generals in Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's team of commanders
 Gen. Omar N. Bradley told the writer that if Field Marshal Albert Kesselring reports the true situa- tion he must inform the German high command and Hitler that the Wehrmacht no longer can hold any line.
 It. Gen. George s. Patton put 1t another way, saying that the Allies can punch out in any direction at will.
 As the Allied armies surge for- ward to form a junction with the Russians more German cities are being levelled through the failure of the government to call it day or for the people to rise openly and oppose continuation of a hopeless cause.
 Whenever the Allies run into a sticky center of resistance Eisen- hover simply orders the tanks to envelop and bypass the city. Crush ing air and artillery power is then applied in concentrated form until only rubble heaps are left.
 In the final act doughboys move into wipe out snipers or the few remaining fanatics.
 The battle of Germany really was won when the Germans elected to fight west of the Rhine instead of east.
 Their quarter million troops dug in behind the water barried and utilizing the excellent defensive terrain, could have prolonged the war many weeks or months and cost the Allies considerable casaul- ties. But for some reason-perhaps political or prestige-Hitler ordered the disastrous stand west of the Rhine.
 Discussing this great error Eisen- hover said: "To have any chance to fight successfully on the east bank of the Rhine the Germans should have pulled back across the river, using their bridges when the advance of the Ninth American Army on Feb. g made favorable progress.
 'The Germans lost heavily in the Saar. They never expected the Seventh Army possessed such strength and speed.
 Then Patton's Third Army ran all over the Germans before they knew what hit them"
 Eisenhower modestly omitted to state that he planned these offen- sive moves, as all other big ones, during the entire western European liberation campaign.
 Along the east side of the river the terrain Is ideal for defense. Im- mediately east of the Rhine there are rolling hills, sharp passes and twisting valleys enabling wither- ing crossfire to command high ground and the employment of road blocks.
 The country abounds in excellent positions to hide tanks and self guns. Little villages built around bends in the roads afford a maximum resistance with a mini mum number of troops.
 Places like Trier and Prum, To- cated in such country west of the river, were attacked for many weeks without equalization. But they fell once the all-out final AL lied offensive opened and pulled the stuffings out of the German armies west of the Rhine.
 Driving across a pontoon bridge just north of the famous Remagen bridge which lies collapsed in the Rhine, one observes a thin ribbon. 8 piece of land only 20 to 100 yards wide in most places between the river and Sheer Bluff. Behind these bluffs narrow roads lead through hills and wooded country.
 Actually, what happened at Re- magen was a reflection of the mag nificent strategy which Eisenhower devised and applied to the current battle.
 Previously he told all his com- that if they could get men across the Rhine by any means to pour them over in an effort to bounce the enemy.
 When the joyous news. came from that engineers of the first army found a bridge standing and usable ct Remagen, although t