[Homer_J_Simpson]

Nazi Lines Cave In – 2-3
Calais Zone Rocks (Currivan) – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Bases in Russia Long-Kept Secret – 4
Senators Appeal on Hungary’s Jews – 4
2 More of Schoutens Taken; Biak Enemy Blow Smashed – 5
Lone Bomber Rips Foe’s Ship at Truk – 5
Chindits Seal Foe inside Myitkyina – 5-6
Pole Says Nazis Plan Slave Town (Daniel) – 7
Foe Gains 12 Miles in Changsha Push – 7
False Invasion Report Stirs U.S.; Associated Press Explains Error – 8
Enemy Pooh-Poohs Imminent Invasion – 9
After the Germans Let Loose Holland’s Flood Waters (photo) – 9
Republicans Push Contest in Tennessee on Filing of Hillbilly Singer for Governor – 9
West is Held Safe for Republicans (Gallup) – 11
War Casualties – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 12-13

The News of the Week in Review
Fifteen News Questions – 14
The Face of War Hasn’t Changed (cartoon) – 15
Germans Steel Themselves for the Invasion (Axelsson) – 16-17
Pressure Grows on Japan’s Defense Arc (map) – 17
Fierce Fighting Ahead in the War on Japan (Horne) – 18
Soviets Show Interest in Balkans (by Raymond Daniell) – 19
Advantages Balanced in Invasion Battles (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 20
The Allied Push to Rome Seeks to Trap the German Armies (map) – 21
Allies to Push On North after the Capture of Rome (by Milton Bracker) – 22
Answers to Fifteen News Questions – 22
Northward in Italy (cartoon) – 23
The Best Selling Books, Here and Elsewhere (from Book Review) – 23

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/jun44/04jun44.htm#

Americans liberate Rome
Sunday, June 4, 1944 www.onwar.com

Elements of the American 5th Army enter Rome [photo at link]

In Italy... Elements of the US 5th Army (Clark) reach Rome. In the evening, elements of the US 88th Division enter Rome.

From London... The Allied Expeditionary Force convoys, bound Normandy, are called back to port because of poor weather conditions expected for June 5th. Eisenhower decides, however, that the invasion can take place on June 6th. The poor weather has also encourage the German defenders in occupied France. Rommel, commanding Army Group B, decides to go to Germany for his wife’s birthday on June 6th and to meet with Hitler. Other German commanders in the Normandy area are at a training exercise in Brittany.

[henkster]

I would say that Raymond Daniell’s prediction that Stalin did not intend to Sovietize the Balkans was just a little inaccurate.