Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War Southern Okinawa: Naha-Shuri-Yonabaru, 1945 – Tenth Army Operations, 10 May-30 June 1945
Okinawa, Ryukyus Islands, 1945: Japanese Thirty Second Army Defensive Dispositions, 1 April 1945
Luzon, P.I., 1941: Final Operations on Luzon, 3 February-20 July 1945
Southeast Asia, 1941: Final Allied Offensives in the Southwest Pacific Area 19 February-1 July 1945
China, 1941: Operation Ichigo, 1945 and Final Operations in the War
Southern Asia, 1941: Third Burma Campaign-Allied Victory, April-May 1945
On this date the New York Times reports extensively on a speech by Secretary of Commerce, Henry a Wallace, who by the intervention of divine Providence was dumped in the Democrat convention of 1940 from his office of Vice President of the United States. Had it not been so Wallace would have become President and his ideas about the structure of the postwar world would have become the policy of the United States of America as the country was being drawn into the Cold War.
His speech as reported here is interesting because it presages the lines the left would take in opposing opposition to communism, hindering in every way possible the Marshall plan, opposing Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, apologizing for of the Soviet Union's rendering Eastern Europe into a police state, etc. Wallace himself was probably a Communist and there is allegedly evidence in Soviet archives to that effect.
The damage to the country if he had become president at that time is incalculable, we might actually have lost the Cold War.
