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became and has remained the
only chair of learning in the world
founded in the name of a servant,
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A food highly prized by the
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|-VICTORY IN EUROPE!
Germany Forced to Capitulate
After Six Years of Fighting;
Allies Face Big Job in Pacific
Eleven hard and bitter months after General Dwight D.
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
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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.
They also have their hands in Para
mount, RKO, and in Technicolor.
. . . Twentieth Century-Fox thinks
it has a second Judy Garland »n a
little blue-eyed redhead, Georgia
Lee Settle.
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