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Asserts Stalin Prefers to Wait Until, Election Is Decided.

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ported by Johnston in the current Reader's Digest, Stalin observed: “I like to do business with American businessmen... . , Your word is good and, best of all, you stay in office a long time, just like we do over here. But a politician is here today and gone tomorrow, and then you have to: make

arrangements all over with a new

set.” That Churchill decided to go to Moscow at once, without awaiting the results of the American election, came as no surprise to those familiar with European political events. Since the Teheran conference, the united nations have enjoyed an unbroken procession of military triumphs on the one hand, and, on the other, they have been confronted by the mounting wreckage of political problems capable of menacing the common bonds uniting Soviet Russia and

: the western powers,

At Teheran plans had been drawn for a ‘co-ordinated attack by the gllies' and the Soviet forces upon Hitler's fortress. The military chiefs at Teheran had allotted to the Red army the task of striking at and destroying the industrial backbone of Germany which today is concentrated in Silesia and the Bohemian bastion of Czechoslovakia, 5! Plan at Teheran These remote southeastern provinces of the Reich, from which Hitler draws his dwindling sinews of war, do not lie within easy striking distance of British and American strategic air forces. According to the Teheran plans, I am told, Stalin's armies were to be advanced across the Vistula and the open plains upon Breslau in Silesia and through Cracow in the south into the armament ‘centers of Bohemia. This plan was designed to break the backbone of the Nazi was production. The Russian offensive rolled up a series of magnificent victories within a few weeks while Eisenhower’s armies were battling. their way inch by inch out of Normandy. Toward the end of July the Soviet forces were poised to strike through central Poland at the industrial heart of Germany. The American and British armored columns were preparing to blitz France and Belgium. Then something happened. This

; . (Continued From Page One) carrier force,” from Adm. Halsey’s 3d fleet, was “still lurking in the waters off the Ryukyus.” There was no confirmation from any allied source, however, that

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force 58 had turned its attention to Formosa, as the Japanese communique would indicate. Formosa was reported’ to be the site of the largest Japanese camp

time. Maj. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, who was captured in the fall of Bataan, was believed to have been confined there. . The island, which the Japanese call Taiwan or “beautiful,” is elliptical shaped with approximately 3,000,000 population. The northwesiern tip is only 130 miles from Foochow, China's last big seaport which the Japanese claimed to have captured last week. Takao, a port on the southwestern coast of Formosa and the origin of the rail line, has been hit at various times this year by Liberator bombers from the 14th air force in China. Tainan is just north of Takao and Taichu is nearly midway up the

something has baffled the allied supreme command and is believed to have been a subject of much anxious discussion at Quebec. The Red armies veered from the course mapped at Teheran and, instead of striking in the center at Germany, moved far south to invade Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Hungary. While Stalin's legions were enveloping the Balkan and Danubian domains, other Russian forces were wresting the Baltic countries from the Germans.

The political doubts raised by this change of the: strategic plans soon became apparent. Diplomatic disturbances broke out like a rash. While at Bretton Woods and at

Dumbarton Oaks, delegations of the united nations were drafting peace plans, Stalin was rushing his postwar order, Then came the strange turn in the behavior of Marshal Tito, so long coddled by Churchill, One of the facts which disturbed the Quebec conferees was Tito's secret flight to Moscow. He had been surrounded by a British military entourage for months. One day, after the Red army had smashed its way into the Balkans, he slipped out with an aide and flew to MosCOW. Upon his return, Tito changed his attitude, When Tito’s British “protectors” threatened to suspend lend-lease, Tito is reported to have bluntly

declared: “We don’t need you any

for American prisoners. At one

1000 Yank Planes Pound Formosa Base, Japs Report

west coast, where the rail line runs. Meanwhile, Liberator bombers. delivered new blows on Japan's vital ofl resources on Borneo and other dutch East Indies islands, it was discosed today as Central Pacific forces strengthened their control of the eastern approaches to the Phil-

ippines by occupying the 10th island |

in the Palaus. Adm. Nimitz announced at Pearl Harbor that troops of the 81st army division occupied without op= position the small island of Bairakaseru, seven miles northwest of Garakayo, in the southern Palaus Tuesday. Nimitz’ communique disclosed that 1st division marines were mak= ing stead progress in mopping up isolated Japanese on Umurbrogol mountain, on Peleliu, and had blown up an ammunition dump in one of the largest enemy-held caves. The communique also announced that an error had been made in the calculation of enemy dead on Peleliu and Angaur. The revised figures through Oct. 10 showed 10.305 enemy dead on Peleliu and 1165 on Angaur. In addition 284 prisoners were taken on Peleliu and

11 at Angaur.

more, We'll get all the aid we want from. Russia.” The British invasion of Albania’

and Greece, generally recognized as{-

an operation improvised at the last minute, followed, Churchill apparently decided that diplomacy alone would not halt the Soviet tide in

the Balkans, and that before pro-|

ceeding to talk things over with Stalin it would be prudent to hold a strong military position in the disputed areas, Issue “By-Passed” The British are said to feel that the question of the legitimate Polish government, which had been bypassed by Moscow and its puppet regime at Lublin, requires an immediate settlement since the crisis over Poland has raised a moral issue which goes to the roots of the war and the future peace. The arrival in Quebec of Anthony Eden, whose benevolent attitude towards Soviet Russia approximated closely that of President Roosevelt, is said to have been closely related to the profound shift in British opinion as a result of the Soviet attitude towards the uprising in Warsaw, a shift which was soon reflected in parliament. Churchill is said now to hold the belief that a clear-cut understanding with Stalin on the controversial issues cannot wait another meeting of the Big Three, after the November American election. Backed by the spectacular victories of allied arms

in the west, Churchill is said to be!

to Moscow in a resolute mood.

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