The following•• in,form at ion h.e.s ju s t b een h.anded to me as we were going on the air. The Navy Department/ announces the loss of the destrorers Morrison..-,and . Luce,I off Okinawa/with heavy casualties. E c aot, carri e d a . crew of ore than t-wo hund ed .. The exact number of ~ - • - g lt . /. t . casua 1es is no given. Ho•ever, 1 the commanding I officers of both of the d _ itroye ~ ~cS were a11ong the survivors. Ja an begi ns to r em ind u· o Nazi Germany in 1 s dying ho r . The i s · re talking b o new e on. The re rep ring balo ons 1 den with bo mbs an manned by suici e ilots. These ill fly w yup in stratas here , carri to - meric · by the prevailing inds. Th Japs calculate th t these ba l lo ons ill rea ch the United States i n a bun rd hours or so. f Tokyo fllse announced today that the entire aviation c orps of the Mik · do's Navy has become a suicid force for attackg on American and Britis •arshipst Apparently t he y are n o t any too confiden~ - .,,, about the s e d esp erate m easures. One office~ said that if this tactic is successful, Jap a n i be sure of ;, victo~7; otherwise there will be many naval heroe Japanese shrines. I for imm i · t a nd concrete i ortance is · the ap earance of a new ty e of apanese fighter plane in the air. Dispatches from the front report that this ne model can o utfly even the wift American Corsair plane. Une s . uadron leader repo ted: •The Japs just thumbed their noses at us". What is more, the enemy seem to have a new batch of pilots. They are sharp, well-trained and of first-class capacity. These new appearances have developed fresh tactics against our fighter pilots. n o r the J p tried u on m 1 C 1 0 Or rathe, on several s a scales. th non g up t ' ed to escape by n er c ver of ar nes Bu th arine got the: In one instance an ent·re J p nese unit committed suio'd en mas h n n Ame ·c n atrol appeared. On Chi e Pen·nsul Japanese soldie sand civilians are an ering . . about daze and confu ed. That was after. the Seventh Division cut them off in its quick dash to the be ch on Saturday. Some Japanese are caught stark nak d ex,ept for a bunch of hand-grenad ~ s over their shoulders. Uncle Sam' ' a v t oda y released a story which you might call incredible if you read it in a magazine. It's the story of ho Com inder Eugene B. Fluokey on the I d al of Honor. Incidentally the entire , ere o the submarine Barb which he skip ered gets the Presidentia Citation. / I Fluckey and the crew of the Barb •int out on what was considered a suicide mission. Be had long suspected that the Japs had a concealed harbor. The Navy does not tell us where it was, but it was believed to hide a large number of Japanese men of war, tantera and munition carriers. Fluckey steered his pig boat . / right into the harbor. The n!ght was dark, · visibility ~ poor. But not too poor for him to seE • • a large number _ ot Jap auxiliary ships. They were anchored behind a protective screen of escort vessels. To make things more , difficult it was in shoal water, which meant that any submarine ould have to come in on the surface and stay th e re for at least n hour a fter attackilg. , Com ma nder Fluck e y fi g ur ed h i s route c are f ull y. He mo v ed the B arb i n s ide the screen of enemy e sc ort s . T he n he f i r ed al l t he t orped oes he could in a s hort time. Im media t e ly s e v e r a l J ap shi p s began o p out colu m ns of fir e . His fir s t tar ge t s ettled in the water right aw a y. Great p i l l a r s of smoke streamed upward. The aide o f one shi p ble w -. out entir e ly. Two others exploded. Only the Japanese thems~lves know how many vessels Fluckey disposed of. He himself had no tiae to stop and count. ,,, Fluc k ey then made a quick turn and ran out along the course he h a d p i cked. It led hia through uncb rted waters filled with mines and rocks Numerous fishin g junks w ere in the way. The junks helped the American pig boat. And Fluckey figured that the Jai escort ski p e rs would hesitate to t a ke the chance that he did. T he m a de for him a s f a · t as they could, ,, throwin g a storm of shells. But Commander Fluckey did a m arvelous job of broken field run ni n g . The fishing ju nks erved th e u r pose h e had e ~ p ect ed t h ey would. They c o n f u s e d t he J apa ne s e, who too k s e v e r a l of t h em as tar ets and sanh t e an he pi bot reached o en water. Th re an enem pla ne otted her. Then Flue s b erged for tbe first tie. The entire crew is alive to tell the tale. To da y' s di s patches re or t t ha t the Japanese i n so theast China r e f l eein g pellm e ll from Chinese colum ns . On e of t h o se colum ns is lready halfway to L i u c how. n th e r co lu mn h a s Jr a d vanced to the Liu River of the city. Further north other Chinese divisions have pushed the enemy out of the territor1 they captured two m onths ago in Western Hunan. Lieutenant General Wedemeyer, Coamanding Uncle Sam's forces in China, made another encouraging rep o rt. He announced that our famous Mars Task Force . which ho p ed to reopen the Burma lioad, is now at work in . China~ Furthermore, the Civil Air Patrol which has done so much invaluable war ork on the home front, is being sent to Indo-China to cooperate w ith the _ British f orces there. The C.A.P. men will be mobilized f o r an air ambulance squadron as pa rt of t h e American field service volunteer ambulance c rps. - - The men who 1 d Fr ce to her ruin are now f/11 cree in b a c · . to ositions o f o r. So said a Russ i n rit er 10 the Com munis t ewspaper ~ravda. " ~ point d O ' Ut that is all b c aus e of a dirty trick the Na zis played on Fr nee in the dying hours of the Hitle regim e .They sen t back Petain and a batch of other ministers of the Third Republic to work their old / m;sohief. These political corpses, said f'ravda,' are I head e d by Daladier and Reynaud, They make speeches and statements as if nothing had happened. Pravda then paid its compliments to the two hundred families always reputed to rule and own most of France. They handed France over to German Fascism. They collaborated during the occupation. low they emerge unwet from the great deluge. They are / fightin g desperately to return to their prewar positions. E OR QH ,. The l lied Con trol C o mm i ssion will aee+ in Berlin tomo rr o . It s e ems def i ite tonight th a t the - e;L. I aAA • c · """-• Frenc h repre s e nt at i ve i l l be Gener a l P C I fJ e Out s id , / of Germ a ny reports of trouble a~d ,I dissatisfaction are rife throu g hout Europe. In , Jugoslavia arshal Tito is talking big and rattling the sabre. Re announced today: "Corinthia is ours and we . will fight for it". In Rome there are loud demands that the Allies get out of Italy. That comes from the Socialist&. I The six Major political parties in Italy have not ye~ succeeded in choosing a successor to Premier Bonoai. An d i n Pari s the entire French cabinet bac ~ u p General DeGaulle's p o licy in the Levant. Unoff i cially we learn th a t his col l eagues have tried I to 1 > ersuade hia t o be more dipomatic. But that d i d ~ I g e t to first base. Spokesmen for the French governae»t , . I' in Paris charge the British as trying to seize complete control of the Levant. The British have already iaposed / censorship• on the Syrians and Lebanese, and the French believe they have seized the outgoing cables~ ,/ The French also charge the British with failing to protect French nationals from abuse and . injury and murder by native mobs. French homes have / been pillaged, they complain. DeGaulle today sent for _ our Ambassador, Jefferson Caffery. They talked for an hour. Nothing official is reported about their / discussion. The guessing is that DeGaulle asked for American arbitration. Meanwhile at Cairo something began which map some people believe may change the iaJ of both the Hear East and the Middle East. conve · e aean Congress oft e Arab League airo oday.Tbe Arab leadera hope and be ieve th this eana the beginning of Pan-Arab uni for he first tiae since the capture of Baghdad by the ongols. au.thor·ties ... on Arab culture aa T. decl red that this wa 8. drea~ and never could e cbieved. J. know aen who have tra Yelled and explo ed there, and they have told ■ e very ucb the sa ■ , e . h ing_;-Qut they said that. several - . I years ago. • last _ ten )ears the tide of Arab ~· nationalis bas re ■ endously in both Africa and Asia. / aturally nothing i ■ p rtant happened at the first day's meeting of the Arab league. But it was quite evident that all the delegates were in favor of the iaaediate withdrawal of France fro~ the Levant. l VA 'IO -• -.. ---- Toni h t we ha ve a ns er s to more of the • u stions eo le have be en asking about Nazi strateg. One of them is: hy did not H itl er in v a de England im edi t ely after Dunkirk? German staff officers today explaiued th t t e Fuehr r nev e r believe t e English wo 1 continu to re i t . He thou ht they ould surely t o in the on e . / When onths passed in d th a t did not happen, he di ten decide to cross the Chann e l. H - issued / ' orders on June ~ixteenth, Nineteen Forty. The plan was to thro ten of the best Nazi divisions into England. One force w a to lan on the shore of Kent, another in Sussex, anoth e r near the wash. That column was to make for Bristol. If it succeeded it would cut ingland in two. I It would shut London and the British government off fro• the factory districts in the mi lands and in the North. The Fueh rer confidently believed that the conquest of Bri tain ou l d be over in ten days after his troops landed / You m ay remember th a t " e he rd s ver 1 time s a story at t e Nazis ha ctu y laun c h d their inv s ion . It s pos t hav . b e n efeated by the Roy 1 rtir Forc e ich um ed i o the wa ters of the Channel nd s e t fire to it. Actu a l l y, there is nothing t : ~ t 11. Th e Germ a n s t aff officers declare no such thin ever hap pened . T hey n eeded a huge fleet of ves els to tr a ns ort those troop s plus the equipment ' for the blitz. The Genera Staff was divided in opinion. Field Marshal alther Von Brauchitsch was then Co mandeJlo- -in-Chief of the German Army. He was against the idea. He said that ev~n if Goering's Luftwaffe destroyed ., the R.A.F. the German Navy was not otrong enough. Britai~ still had its powerful battle fleet which could prevent any invasion. Brauchitsch further told the Fuehrer ., that the attempt wculd cot a uarter of a million German lives even if it succeeded. But Goerin was all for it. Ee persuaded Hitler th at his Luftwaffe was enough o blast a gate•aJ to the Briti s h Isles. His . argument vron. Throu bout / June, July end August the Nazis worked at top s p eed L V _ I.Q _ - 3 re p r n t si o . T hey coll cted 11 th ei r ocean- goin hi p in a t ambur , Kiel , Luebeck · n d S t e ttin. - T hey too o v er every sm a l l ot o r 1 n c h,q,- e v a r cruis e r o n G e r ma 's 1 ke an d r i v e r s . They m as s e d in v a sion b ar g es a t A ntw e r p , ~ ott e r dam a nd o t her port s . Sb ~ pyards er e d iv e rt e d f ro m b ui l d in g submarin e s to producing . ~ barges. The Luftwaffe we nt i nto action with a bo bardment to soften u p the British. But when their D-Day c a me the R.~.F. was s til l going strong and fighting hard. Goering confessed to Hitler that daylight bombing was costing too many German aircraft, and Bitler post p oned the invasion . . _ until October. Then weather was against them. Then, also, they realized that with . all the shipping tha · had collected it was not enough to trans po rt ten divisi o ns plus equi p ment across the Chan ne l. lt w son October Tw e nty-s e ond that Hitler c a l l ed i t al l off. Then, too, he beg a n pr e paring for the dr ive int o uasia. The State De artment today endorsed the i ea of univ r sal ili ary training in peacet ime for the United Sta t es . The testimony came from Acting Secr e t ry of S t te Joseph Grew. He sp oke out of his ex er·ences as a di plom t. "If e had been reasonably prepared in ineteen Forty-one, Japan w ould n ver have attacked u •, he said to the postwar m ilitary policy com m ittee of the House. Then h~ pointed out that unpreparedness is a grievous imp~diment to the forei1n representatives of any country. It ■ akfts our diploaacy ~ ~ ,, weak and ineffectual. Be also g I • that modern - I W a. ~, , armies and navies do not spring into being Go■ • -•••-••