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Eisenhower’s armies smashed through the ramparts of “For tress Europe” to set foot upon French soil, Germany’s once proud wehrmacht, weakened-after six years of the bloodiest war in history, bowed the knee unconditionally to the Allied powers. Offered to Russia as well as the U. S. and Britain after earlier futile efforts to split the Allies by approaching the Anglo-Americans alone, Germany’s surrender took place at General Eisenhower’s headquarters in the little red school These are (he men—Roosevelt, Truman, Stalin and Churchill, who were responsi ble In directing the victory against Germany. Truman, committed to the Roosevelt foreign relation policies, logether with Stalin and Churchill, will direct the United Nations In plans (or world's peace. house in Reims, France, at 2:41 a. m., May 7, with Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith accepting Col. Gen. Gustav Jodi’s capit ulation. Later the surrender was ratified at Russian head quarters in battered Berlin, with Marshal Gregory Zhukov participating for the Reds. Grand Adm. Karl Doenitz’s order to German troops to cease firing came as a sort of anti-climax since the bulk of the Nazis forces already had laid down their arms in the face of the Allied avalanche. April 29, 1,000,000 Nazis surrendered in northern Italy and western Austria; May 4, another 1,000, 000 gave up in Holland and Denmark, and on May 5, 400,000 quit in southern Germany. As the stiff necked German of ficers formally admitted defeat, nei ther they nor the beaten country's new ministers entertained any illu sions as to the character of the Al lied terms, with Foreign Minister Count Ludwig Schwenn Von Kro sigk telling the people: . Nobody must deceive him self on the harshness of the terms. . . . Nobody must have any doubt that heavy sacrifices will be demand ed from us in all spheres of life... Thus did the European war come to its end six years after the mighty German army, striking at the un prepared western powers, rolled through Poland; levelled the low lands and France, and then turned back to the east again to challenge giant Russia. As the Germans capitulated, behind them lay the remnants of a once all-powerful army, which, like Napoleon's, underestimated the vast steppes of Russia, and then found the U. S. and Britain gathering force behind its back; behind them lay Germany’s blackened cities and shattered railway lines, pulverized by Al lied aerial attacks; and behind them In the ruins of Berlin re portedly lay Adolf Hitler’s dead body. Because of the anti-climactic na ture of the formal surrender, and also because of the premature an nouncement of the capitulation days before, some of the edge had been removed from the great event, with the result that the nation accepted GEN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER “Man of the Hour.” the news with restraint. As Ger many’s fall was substantiated, peo ple looked to the east, where the Japs still remain to be defeated and the entire resources of the navy and well over S,000,000 troops may be needed to assure victory. With America scheduled to take over the occupation of central and western Germany and western Aus tria In accordance with Allied plans to maintain strict supervision over the country until a thoroughly dem ocratic administration can be estab lished. U. S. military authorities flg | ure on the detention of 400,000 Yanks | In Europe. The first big break that signalized ! Germany’s disintegration was the U. S. 1st army’s surprise capture of the LudendorfI bridge spanning the Rhine below Cologne, permitting Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges to build up a OFFICIAL WORD When the real V-E Day came, most U. S. citizens got absolute ! confirmation of the news before | starting victory celebrations. They ; remembered the false reports of Saturday, April 28. that had swept over the nation only to be climaxed oy a White House denial of the peace rumor. Pres. Harry S. Truman said at that time that he had been in con I tact with General Eisenhower and | that there was “no foundation" ! tar the peace report. A PROCLAMATION Here is a partial text of Presi dent Truman’s victory proclama tion: “The Allied armies, through sacrifice and devotion and with God’s help, have wrung from Germany a final and uncondi tional surrender. The western world has been freed of the evil forces which for five years and longer have imprisoned the bodies and broken the lives of millions upon millions of free born men. “Much remains to be done. The victory won in the west must now be won in the east. The whole world must be cleansed of the evil from which half the world has been freed. "For the triumph of spirit and of arms which we have won and for its promise to people every where who join us in the love of freedom, it is fitting that we as a nation give thanks to Almighty God, who has strengthened us and given us the victory. Now, therefore, 1 Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby ap point Sunday, May 13, 1945, to be a day of prayer. “I call upon my countrymen to dedicate this day of prayer to the memory of those who have given their lives to make pos sible our victory.M HARRY S. TRUMAN. powerful bridgehead immediately below the vital Ruhr district and on the edge of the rolling plains lead ing eastward to Berlin. As the 1st army’s bold move threw the German command off balance, the remaining Allied forces in the west soon poured over the Rhhie, last formidable water barrier guard in the heart of the reich. While Brit ish and Canadian troops struck out against eastern Holland and the North sea ports, the U. S. 9th army set about reducing the Ruhr valley while one wing of the 1st joined in the attack and another kept step with Lt. Gen. George Patton’s famed armored columns dashing eastward across the reich. Meanwhile, the U. S. 7th and the French 1st armies drove into the Nazis’ mythical re doubt in the Bavarian Alps. As the American and British armies slashed through the German positions and turned to their rear ward to isolate the enemy into sep arate pockets, the whole enemy’s front lost its coherence, contribut ing to the disintegration of Nazi re sistance. With whole groups of German troops entrapped without hope of reinforcement, their defense va ried, with the majority of the old er. more practical men giving up upon being cornered while younger fanatics carried on in the face of overwhelming odds. Meanwhile, the Russians had drawn up along the banks of the Oder river from the Baltic clear down to Silesia, while still other Red armies thrust eastward through Czechoslovakia and Austria. Once the Russians opened their all-out at tack on Berlin, in the face of the Nazi collapse ir the west, the giant pincer was near its close. Twice taken to war in 25 years and twice defeated, with nothing to show but the anguish and suffer ing of conflict, the mass of the Ger man people in American and British occupied territory accepted uncon ditional surrender with a stolidity that masked their inner feelings. East of the Elbe river where the Reds stood guard, however, the populace tread in apprehension over fear of reprisal for the Nazis’ devastation of Russia in four years of bitter warfare. Previously, many of the people had tried to escape to the west, only to be turned back. !' ESE EVENTS I ) ALLIES TO VICTORY The beginning of the gigantic life and-death struggle known as “World War II” is generally set as Septem ber 1, 1939, the day the German armies rolled into Poland. Two days later France and England declared war on Germany. Blitzkrieg tactics flattened Polish resistance in less than a month. Then began the half year of ‘‘phoney war” at the Maginot line. In the spring of 1940 German troops over ran Norway and Denmark, forcing out the British. Early in May the campaign that frightened the entire world opened. Holland, Belgium and then France itself capitulated by the middle of June. Italy came in on Germany’s side. The British expedi tionary force barely escaped de struction at Dunkerque. September, 1940, saw the massed air attacks on Britain by which Hitler hoped for a quick victory. The RAF held off the Nazi bombers until winter, when weather brought a slack ening of attacks. That autumn of 1940 was probably the period of gravest peril to civilization in many centuries. Britain almost succumbed. During the spring of 1941 Nazi troops smashed into the Balkans to aid the Italians, invading Yugoslavia and Greece. Bulgaria joined the Axis voluntarily. Germany controlled all of continental Europe excepting Russia by the middle of the year. Without warning on June 22, Nazi armies crossed the Russian border in a tremendous drive. As alarmed America prepared for defense, Japan attacked without warning at Pearl Harbor in the Ha waiian islands and the U. S. was Immediately at war with both Japan and Germany. By mid-1942, American ma rines stopped the Japs on Guad alcanal. In Africa the British halted the drive on the Sues canal and counterattacked suc cessfully. The Russians epic de fense of Stalingrad stalled the German thrust into the Cauca sus. The tide had turned. In the fall American and British troops uanded in northern Africa. The great Russian counteroffen sive began in February of 1943. It rolled fiercely until mid-July, when the retreating Nazis stiffened and brought it to a standstill in central Poland. Meanwhile the air offensive from the British Isles was batter ing German cities and ports, pre paratory to the invasion. June 6, 1944, was the big day—the invasion of western Europe from England. After landing on the coast of France, American and British troops battled inland. Almost all France was under Allied control by November, 1944. Advance tank units were attacking on the German bor der by December. A substantial German counteroffensive was checked as the year ended. On March 2 the American Ninth army reached the Rhine river. With in two weeks this great natural de fense line was crossed. Racing tank corps smashed to the Elbe riv er, 30 miles from Berlin, and halted to await junction with the Rus sians. This signal event took place on April 27. Far to the south, Ameri can and Russian armies were roar ing through Austria to seal off south ern Germany. Organized resistance crumbled as German soldiers gave up in enormous numbers. Allied Power We have won a war, but there is still another one to win. Before we can win the war against Japan, there is the gigantic problem of sup ply and moving the troops from the European theater to the Pacific. The army estimates that 5,000,000 foot soldiers will be needed to de feat Japan. Our entire navy and air forces will be required. Some men will be released from service —the individuals will be determined on total service, overseas service, combat service and number of de pendents. The bulk of the army will not be released. Divisions will be regrouped to bring them up to combat strength. It will take several months to or ganize troops, crate and pack equipment before the units are ready to sail against Japan. Some divisions will be lucky. They will be routed through the United States, while others will sail through the Panama canal direct to a Pacif ic port. Those landed in the United States will be given some leave. About Four Months. The divisions that sail direct to the Pacific will arrive about five months after V-E Day. It will take weeks after landing to check all equip ment, for additional shipping to be available to bring necessary war material. Training for a new type of warfare must be undertaken. Japan has 6.000.000 troops which have not yet met combat from our forces. They are calling up an additional million. They will be ready for us. She can raise another 2,000,000 when necessary. These have all had youth training. Looking at 'iiiimiHiim A FTER all his years here the town hasn’t yet been able to corral and brand Walter Huston as a complete Hollywoodian. It isn’t that Walter’s snooty. It’s just that he prefers the outdoor life of a rugged man to the social stuffed shirt of some of our cinema gentle men. Give him the wide open spaces and you can have your too - too swank small talk. ‘‘I don’t live away from Holly wood because I don’t go in for so cial life,” Walter told me as we chatted on the set of ‘‘Ten Little In Walter Huston dians.” “When you come right down to it, social life isn’t important any more. People say it is, but all that counts is the job you do on the screen. You can be perfectly happy here without ever doing anything but go to a drive-in for a hambur ger. It’s just that I’m a funny kind of a guy. I have to get out where I can breathe—where I can get com pletely apart from pictures when I want to. But don’t get me wrong— I love pictures.” When he’s making one he lives at the Beverly Hills hotel, but Walter has two other homes where he goes whenever he can get away. One is his huge and ultra mountain lodge in Running Springs, in the San Bernar dino mountains. The other his 8,000 acre cattle ranch at Porterville, Calif. I he Inner Man It’s in these two places that you’ll uncover the real Huston, the man who is not an actor, but the man who has found that elusive some thing you’re always hearing about and always wondering what it really is—happiness. When you're talking to this char acter actor who has dignified so many important films, conversation switches from his lodge and ranch to his favorite subject—his son, John. In Walter’s mind John is the best director—and writer—in Flick erville. "Give John a story he likes, let him alone, and he’ll come up with the doggonedest picture you ever saw,” Walter told me. “There’s nothing I'd like better than to go into the producing business with John when the war’s over.” Rare Bird for Hollywood Walter’s modest. He never talks about his performances—just goes ahead, does his job the best he knows how and shuts up. His whole life has been one of plugging away at acting. Even when he was a kid in Toronto, Canada, he knew he was going to act. There was a matter of schooling. He was one of the worst students Canada had ever known, so it wasn’t too hard to understand why he left school rather early and got a job as a clerk in a hardware store. From here he joined a dramatic out fit in Toronto, where he stayed un til a traveling repertoire company came along. Then he decided to go to New York. He arrived there frozen stiff, he had jumped a freight during a blizzard. Richard Mansfield was audition ing players and Walter was handed a part. Mansfield personally hon ored him that night by throwing him out of the theater. Electrician, Then Vaudevillist Next he went to Detroit, tried elec trical engineering, then tried vaude ville. In one of the acts on the cir cuit he was playing there was a girl named Bayonne Whipple. She and Walter decided to merge profes sionally—and maritally. For about 12 years they were headliners on and Keith circuit with their song and dance act. This marriage like a former one blew up. He decided to go on his own with a big-time act. The Schu berts paid him $1,750 a week. At 39 he turned to the legitimate stage. He managed to get backing and made his Broadway debut in "Mr. Pitt." The play wasn’t so hot. But Walter was. He’s never played anything but staf roles on Broadway since. It was during the run of "Elmer the Great” that he met Nan Sunder land and later married her. They are till working happily at it. He began to make pictures in 1929, and since then has alternated be tween Broadway and Hollywood. I’ve known Walter for years. He’s a square shooter. All he asks of life is a reasonable amount of security, good companionship, and the respect of his fellow men. • • • They’ll Throw Weight Now The Lehman brothers move into | the top list of movie moguls with ! their recent buy of a sizable block of 20th Century-Fox. They bought the | Chase bank holdings of that com pany a couple of years ago. This gives them control of one of the most powerful lots in the industry. 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