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The battle of the e,_reak-through is tough
and stubborn going. Today, American Firs
t
Ar ■y
troops
widened
the gap that they succeeded in
smashing
through the Siegfried Line. They added another
■ ile
to the opening. And
at
the front edge of the
wedge
thruat forward through the gap they
ha ■mered
alo"~
tor further advances.
The
ene ■y
resistance is of a
■ ost
foraidabl
•
aort - the
Ger■ ans
aaking a
fanatical suicidal fi&ht
for the aoil of their country. The aaJor
ele ■enta
for
their defense are artillery and earth worka. The
Aaericana are advancin1 under ao~e of the heavieat
shellfire ever witnessed in war - the 1•
Ger ■ana
having brought forward great
■ asses
of guns. Their
infantry is holding out in earthworks, trenches of
a
■odernized
kind -
*•
and thee,
are eaid
to be more
formidable than the concrete pill boxes of the
Siegfried line.
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At one place in the ~attle of the Ereak
through~ hostilities have
assumed
something of the
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aspect of the jungle fighting in the southwestern
Pacific.
On the plain before the city of Cologne,
there's a wooded section called Hurtgen Forest -
the usual maze of trees.
A ■ erican
troops have driven
into Hurtgen forest and are
i ■■ ~i
in bitter conflict
with
the Geraana.
The tactics in the woods there are
reainiaoent
of the ways of war in the dense jungle•
of the South Sea.
But the aiailarity does not extend
to cliaate, the wintr7 chill of northern Geraany
being aigbt7 different
fro ■
the dank heat of the
equatorial thicket.
In the Hurtgen roresti the Aaerican1 have
reached their nearest point t~ Cologne
on the Rhine -
twent7-1even
miles fro• the city. They have driven
thirteen miles into
Ger■any,
and one spearhead is
eight
miles eaat
of Aachen.
~ve for the Hurtgen
Forest, the country is clear
·
and open flat land -
excellent for the tactics of tanks. But the
Geraans
are fighting it out to the bitter end, and are making
furious counter-attack&.
These forced the Americans
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back at a couple of places, but the First Army aen
have surged forward again and reopptured what they
had lost.
The Allied news tells nothing about event•
at the northern end of the battle line - in Bolland.
But Berlin announce• that the British there have
cro1eed
the lower Rhine, and are driving northward,
Accordin1 to B.rlin, a violent battle
i•
1oing on,
•• th• Geraana try to hold a drive which threaten•
hundred thousand
to cut the 1acape corridor for
aAizis ■ x•~i•~
Geraan
troop• in Western Bolland •
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Along the coast of the lngliah Channel,
the battle for Dunkerque was reauaed today - after
a
1■ trucetdper■ it
civilians to be evacuated. lineteen
thousand people steamed out, in a huge procession.
Today the truce
ca ■ e
t~an end, and the Canadian
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The Allies dcf""n't expect t~have an easy
time in capturing Dunkerque - they have evidence that
the Geraans will fight as long as they can. The
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evidence consists of the attitude of German officers
•ho talked with British commanders in negotiating
the truce. The British say that these Germans were
fanatical lazis, who went so far as to try to convert
the British officers to the cause of Bitler.
And they have told their troops at
Dunkerqua that it they can •old out a week longer,
help will
co ■ e,
they will be relieved. Bow?
By
•tf
•ictory tor Bitler.
The lazi-tbeory at Dunkerqua
ia that the long debated aecret weapon, the V-2, ia
about to go into
af action - and the Allies will be
o•erthrown. So the Dunkerque
lazis
have only
a week
■ ore
to hold out before the coming
of
the
triu ■ph
-
the V-2.
It all sounds rather like a lunatic
asylu ■,
but the ~ritish are of the realistic belief that the
lazi delusions will persuade the German troops at
Dunkerque to put up the hardest k1nd of
gis~ix
fight.
To the South, the sector of General P~to~)
Third Army, the cannon were roaring today - roaring
their loudest. The Germans, in their defense, are
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concentratin on artillery
fi ■x•
fire - and an
American officer stated today that it waa the hea•ieat
cannonade of the war
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At Fort Dri~t~'taotaatic battle
goea
on with increasing weirdness and bitterness - the
conflict between the
Americana
above ground and the
Geraana
in underground
paaaages.
Fanatical
lazi
fighter• continue to
awara
up out of their aubterranan
~~
worl~••• ••~ counter attackt. These are beaten off,
and today the Aaericana above ground score.d a atrikinc
aucceaa. They captured one of the tunnels - and tbia
aay be the beginning of an underground war, a drive
into the subterranean world.
IIALX
In Italy the Aaeican Fifth Army has
progressed
f ■
so far in its drive to break out into
the valley
of the Po that tonight
American
big••••
guns are shelling the outskirts of Bologna That
city of couret, ie the key to the flat,. lands••
of the •alley. Bologna ie in artillery range
now,
which would
aeea
to
■ean
that the long hard battle
to get through the aountaina and onto the flat plain
baa been won.
The war news from Greece tonight features
one of
t
he most c~lebrated
of classic
naaes
British forces, having captured the port of Patras,
are advancing alon
the gulf of Corinth.
rtn/to
or
the
This line of
■arch
will take the British
to the
Iath ■ us
of Corinth, the narrow neck of land
that connects the Peloponnesus with the reaainder of
Greece.
On the
Iathaus,
in ancient
times,
stood the
city of Corinth,
a aighty
metropolis that figured so
greatly in the splendors of the classic past - the
glory that was Greece.
~ee1e
bare
eeen reporte
,hat
the
Ga~mso1
ia\end ~e
fePtify
ihe
aaPre•
ieih■~e
ef Corinth
and hoH
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A
gai<
le bear that the Germans have evacuated the
island of Rhodes, famous
in
history for the giant
•
s.
1cuptured effigy called the Coloeaue. The Briti••,
A
up one
in their aoves on Greece, are
pickingAa, ■"island
after another, and now - Rhodes.
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The latest tells or Allied invasions or
half a dozen Grecian Isles
historic bits or land
in the Aegean Sea.
And the Geraan garrison a
is said
to be threatened with a pincers
■ove ■ ent
one Jaw of which is the force
■ oving
toward the
Iath■ua
of Corinth, while the other ia an Allied
Force that haa seized the island of Andora, near
Athena.
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,!!USSIA
Russian Troops have
r
e
ached Belgrade, That
is to say, they are now on the river bank across the
Danube
from the Jugoslav Capital. Red
Army
Forces drove
to the
Danube
opposite Belgrade on
a twenty-six mile
front, and have brought their big siege guns
forward
for
a
cannonade.
hi1/
city
,t{
Another report tells of'a Russian naval success
far to the
North
-- in the Baltia. We hear of eight
large
Ger■ an
transports with ten th~u•~nd troops aboard, W'fflieh
MP&
torpedoed and sunk by Russ~an submarines outside
of
the harbor
of
Tallinn, the capital city
of
Esthonia.
war
flig
/
s that
used
,,
/
in tlrl.'s
fl
he n 7 tlantio •
along
i■
line,fa?)today we have a climax of the old
and
heroic turned into the commonplace.
Lindbergh'•
flight has been duplicated, non-stop Ne• York*'
to Paris - and just
as a
routine matter getting Chief
of Staff General Marshall and aobilization Director
Brrnea over to the war zone in France.
It was seventeen ye,ra ago this past
sua■er
that Lindbergh made himself the world's moat
fa ■ oua
flyer by piloting an old-time pllne for the first
solo flight across the Atlantic - le• York
to
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For today's trip General lara6all and Mobilization
Director Byrnes took a big transport fitted out
especially for use
by
President Roosevelt - though he
has not yet flown in it. At
·
the controls ~ t h e
A
President's
personal pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Henry
T. Myers of Tifton, Virginia. When they landed in
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Paris,
Marshall and Byrnes stepped out spic and
span,
fresh and rested, to be welcomed by General•
Ei ■■ nho
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er
and Bradla7.1':,,..
•The trip• said,"Pilot 1Lieutenant Colonel
■y
o
re,
•was a
i i
lot different
froa
Lindbergh'•·
le had a pleasant jaunt, with steak for one
■ eal
on
the
way,
and creaaed chicke6 for another.• The aky
YOJage
took
nineteen
hour■
the
fir■t ~
:
ha■
been
A
~
flo~in~dbargh
■ade
it in thirt7-three
hour■
tho••
year•
a10.
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battle - the Communist question, coamuniat support
for a fourth
ter■• I ■
Be disavowed the Beds,
1ayin1
that
be
rejected the backing of the Communists.
I
don't
know whether
the di1ciples o f ~
Browder• and
Stalin are discouraged by this, but in
Boston a
lively
row ia on
because of a bit of
Coaauni1t
fourth
ter■
electioneering. The
Co ■ auniat
political
aaaociation ia 1ponaorina, an anti-Dewey
■uaical
show, which ia to have ita
pre ■ ier
at
a7aphon7 ball tonight -
aa
~
part of a
co ■■uniat
rall7
which Browder will address.
Thia ha• aroused the ire of organised
woaen
votera, and the
laaaacbueetta
lo ■en's
PoliticalClub
deaanded
that the city ban the Coamuniat electioneeriDI
theatrical production attacking Dewey. The city censor
said - no, he couldn't do anything about it.
So now the
Women's
Poiitical Club announces
that the
show
will be picketed. Some fifty thousand
women
■ embers
are urged to join the
·
picket line at the
C
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t
lly
I
don't know whether all fifty thousand
ommun1s
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of the ladies •ill reap.Ind, but
if
they should it
would be
ao11ething
that
even llarx, Lenin, Stalin and
the party line would have trouble
t ■ a
in solving -
a picket line~
fifty thousand angry
woaen!
roLLPI RQQR.EYE~I
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Bere'a the latest, Dewey's reply to
President Roose•elt'a rejection of
ooa ■ uniat
support.
Thi• afternoon the Republican Candidate stated:
•Mr.•
Rooae•elt asked the aaerican people not to look now,
because
ao ■ebod7
ia following
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BULL
A paradoxical state
of
affairs is indicated
in the case of the agreement on foreign policies
between Secretary
of
State Cordell Bull and Republican
candidate Toa De
w
ey.
Foster Dulles, Dewey
in general
agree ■ ent
legotiating through his e issary,
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1'.,
and -
Secretary of Stat~are
on the final draft of a world
aeourity organization foraulated at I• Dumbarton Oaks
Thia agreeaant with Dewey waa affiPaed today by the
Secretary of S~t~a~t~•
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But, at the••••
tiaa,
ao ■a
other
ae ■bera
of Dewey's party do not agree with the
agree ■ ent.
Senator lherry of lebraaka, tor
exa ■ple,
denounce•
the
Du ■ barton
Oaks conference and· says the adainiatratio
ia concealing what the senator called •a long list of
shaaeful peace settlement• alreadT agreed upon in
Europe".
And the Senator added that because of the
Dumbarton Oaks agreements we
·
are, in his words, •beilg
driven into a state
of
perpetual war".
All of which,
from a Republican source, is in contradiction to the
agreement between Dewey and Hull concerning Dumbarton
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Oaks. And then there is Republican Senator Ball of
Minnesota, who differs with Dewey on stil~other
grounds - Senator Ball t~king a still more
internationalist position.
All of which is only part of the tangle -
because on the
De ■ocratic
side, too, There are
aeabere
of Congress who do not see eye to eye
with
the Secretary of State in hia
cha■pionship
of
Du ■ bartu
Oaks. Both Secretary Bull and candidate Dewey Join in
a call for non-partisan unity in dealing with our
foreign policy - but there are both
De ■ocrata
and
Republican• who disagree with the two protagoniata
at the top,
fOLYGAMY
In the Polygaay
-
trial at Salt Lake City
the jury's verdict ia -- guilty.
Thirty-one
defendants who call theaselves fundamentalists were
found guilty tonight on the charge of conspm.ng
to practice
polyga ■y.
Their defense was that, in advocating and
practicing plural aarriage, they were
■ erely
followin1
the original tenets of the
Mor■ on
church.
However,
the Moraon Church renounced polygaay years
ago,
and
has been active in trying to el~ainate any linsering
practice of plural aarriage.
The evidence showed that the thirty-one
fundaaentaliata on trial were adherents, in theory
and in practice, of the doctrine of
■ any
wives.
And
the jury's verdict is -- guilty, with sentences to
be imposed on the thirty-one fundaaenta'llista.
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EIRE
The
Emerald
Isle of Ireland is a land of
contradiction,
as was
noted by the late G.
I.
Chesterton, who wrote:
•The great ~ael of Ireland!
whoa
the Goda
aade
■ad_,for
all his
wars
are
aerry,
and all bia
aonga are
••i
sad•.
Why this outbreak of bibernian paradox
toni&bt?
There
ia news
froa Dubl~n, which tell• ua
that Ireland aay be ousted
fro ■
\be British lapire •
.
.
lo, the Irish won't withdraw, aec•de, revolt or
rebel.
It
.
•• the other way round. The British may eject Ireland
fro ■
the British lapire -•aich aight •••• to inflict
on the
Irish••
the Tery thing they have been battlin&
!or
ever since the first Iriahaan saw the first
Englishman.
Ireland is, right now, virtually independent,
and neutral in tbe war - the Irish stubbo~nly
maintaining the right to be out
of
step in the big
parade.
But still, there are some
more
or less
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indeterminate relations bet
w
een the two ill assorted
ialanda, and this we hear irka, not the Irish, but
the Brit iah.
There
,
ia a good deal of indignation in
ln1land because Irelan• haa stayed oat of the
war,
and
pro ■ inent
Britishers are reported to be
■ ayin&
-
w won't have the• in our
e ■pire
any longer.
Th•
Britiah, too, would
see ■
to be afflicted
with a
bit
.
of contradiction and
paradox.
Bavin& fouaht 10 hard
an4 not 10 1ucce1afull7 to keep Ireland in the
e ■pire,
They
no•
want
to to•• Ireland out. But,
f
auppo••
the Irish
ehould
•iaaiat
on atayin& in!
42,....
well,
it'• all too contu•ing, and you'd have to
have an Irish
poet to
ficure
it o u t . ~ ,
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The exiled
govern ■ent
of the Netherlands
today
■ ade
the threat that at the peace table after
'
.
the defeat of
Ger■any,
Bolland would
de ■and
a slice
of
Ger ■an
territory. lhia - not because the realistic
Bollandera are
a ■bitioua,
but because they
might want
reparation in
terms
of territory for the ruin that
Leader• of the exiled government stated toda7
that their country faced the greatest
cala■ ity
in
its history, a
Ger ■an
orgy of deatructi n by
fire
and
flooj. The
1azia
are conductin& ruthless
de ■olitiona,
auch as blowing up buildings and harbors, and the7
are doing even
worse
with the eleaent of water.
Th• letherlands, the low countries, are juat
that - nether, lo• lying. And great areas
.
of sea have
to be kept out
■ t
b~ those famous and historic dikes
of Bolland, the Dutch
more than
once having been
known
to flood their land as defense
against a
foreign foe.
)
How it ts he
Germans who
are doing the flooding.
The exiled government stated today that
already twenty per cent of the farmland has been
inundated - •bioh means that it has been ruined for
■ onths,
or for years. And it is believed that the
Germans aay flood as much as forty-six per cent of
the fields of the letherlands. Moreover, they intend
apparently to let the deluge into cities like
Aasterdaa and
I ■
Rotterdaa - which are lo• lyin&
and
p ■ i ■ ai■t
protected by dikes.
They could flood
these cities to a depth of from eighteen to twenty
feet - bringing the
■ aia
ocean in.
Thia is the sort of ruthless dea,ruction
which may persuade the Dutch
govern ■ent
to
de ■and
Ger ■ an
territorJ. One cabinet
aeaber
of the exiled
aovernaent today
gave
warning to the
Ger■ans
that
Rolland aay be forced to deaand areas of Geraany -
•auoh
as we
do not like it•, said he.
~
I
e~gh\.---
~~
apologize for what I
called the
St.
Loui
s
Browns,
t-ire
d
a
y before yesterday -
Hitless
W
onders. They were that during the first game,
comparatively hitless, and altogether wonderful. However,
it was• differ
e
nt et»er1 today. The Browns, supposed to
be so feeble with the bat, turned into a bunch of
deadly sluggers. -
the kine! that, e&a
p,st,
en a aarJepou•
n=::.~~
ully
with
tsW'► 011"'2.
ih-&f
d ~
/\in their big inning,
the third,
..«i
th two do•ll.- they launch
e
d a five--hi
t
attack and scored four runs - enough to win
.
the game.
!be
6ttrtt&--~std=e1
able
hi bt»ing
agaiaet.
i»awnia
Pitcher
lraaer, hats
tre--,followad
ih&r
prooeed
11
J"e
t.Aat the
i11ewna
feata, eci all aeain>1r=
ge+,+.iD8 int.• eae-
-0.f
So
now the Browns are ahead
in
the series
agait,
two games to one. And, after their prowess at the plate
to
d
ay, lam compelled to say - No, they are not hitless
~~---
wonders.
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