[Homer_J_Simpson]

The first of the following two excerpts is continued from yesterday.

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Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Japanese Cut Off (Parrott) – 2-3
Internees in Tears as Old Glory Rises (Wilkins) – 3-4
Foe Making Stand in South of Manila (Jones) – 4
66 Japanese Freed to Save Hostages (Hewlett) – 4-5
Santo Tomas Diet Slow Starvation (by Robert Crabb, first-time contributor) – 5
‘Angels of Bataan’ All Accounted For – 5-6
Our Return to Manila Has Brought Them Liberty (page 1 photo) – 6
Freedom in Philippines: American Forces Bring Liberty to Our Internees and the Natives (photos) – 7-9
British Carrier Blow at Sumatra Costs Japan 75% of Aviation Fuel – 9-10
Australians Leap Nearer to Rabaul – 10
War News Summarized – 10
Red Army Lined Up – 11-12
Ley Labels Berlin ‘Front-Line City’ – 12
3d Army Wins Key Junction; Big Push in West Seen Near (Currivan, Clifton Daniel, Richard J.H. Johnston) – 13
Bradley Control of 1st Confirmed – 14-15
Regensburg, Bonn Ripped by ‘Heavies’ – 15
Latest War Casualties in the Army and Navy – 16-17
MacArthur’s Slogan Now is ‘On to Tokyo’ – 17
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 18-20
Tanks and Weapons-II (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 20

[Steven Scharf]

Winston S. Churchill’s Triumph and Tragedy excerpt today had some very interesting observations. Roosevelt declared that the US would not remain in Europe with a “large army” for more than 2 years. Although not defined, I would say our army, etc. in Europe remained quite large for some time.

Stalin noted that “in ten years or less the three leaders would disappear and a new generation would come into power which had not experienced the war and would forget what we had gone through.” Roosevelt would be dead in a couple of months and Churchill will have been voted out in July. (Although he again served as prime minister from Oct. 1951 to April 1955). Stalin would lead the Soviet Union until his death on March 5, 1953.