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3 Armies Smashed – 2-3
Duesseldorf and Rhine in Sight of Our Forces (page 1 photo) – 3
German Soldiers Decline Battles (Hill) – 4
Carrying the War into Germany from Air and Land – 4-5
War News Summarized – 5
‘Nuts!’ Reply Held No Shock to Nazis – 6
Eastern Pomerania Cut Off By Soviet Drive, Berlin Says – 7-8
Russia Held Irked by Finns’ Stalling (Axelsson) – 8
Fliers Hit Ryukyus (Moscow) – 8-9
Marines Advance 400 Yards on Iwo (by Bruce Rae, first-time contributor) – 9
Aid Arrives for Our Marines on Iwo from the Sea and the Air (photos) – 10-11
Americans Strike South Luzon Foe (Jones) – 11-12
Fliers Give Score of ‘Fighting Lady’ – 12
The Veteran (Hurd) – 13
Rhine Bridges Vital (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 14
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 15-17
Favor Fund Plan of Bretton Woods (by John H. Crider) – 17
Finland Joins War Against Germany – 17

The News of the Week in Review
Allied Break-Through in the West: First Phase of the Battle of the Rhine (map) – 18
Fifteen News Questions – 19
“Grim Determination” (cartoon) – 20
Germany is Bled White by War on Two Fronts (Baldwin) – 21-22
“Not Much Left” (cartoon) – 22
Air Power to Hit Japan Harder than Germany (by Sidney Shalett) – 22-24
‘Classic’ Operations Bring Allies to Rhine (by Clifton Daniel) – 24-25
“Seems that They Are About Over” (cartoon) – 25
Answers to Fifteen News Questions – 25

The New York Times Magazine
The Road to Tokyo: Red Epic of Iwo (by Robert Trumbull) – 26-27
Close-Up Report on the Japanese (by Ford Wilkins) – 28-32

The New York Times Book Review
International Tribunals: Past and Future, by Manley O. Hudson (reviewed by Robert N. Wilkin, first-time contributor) – 33
The Best Selling Books, Here and Elsewhere – 34