Springville Herald | 1944-03-23 | Page 5 | War News Gives Best Side of Situations

WAR NEWS GIVES BEST SIDE OF SITUATIONS Not long ago we read, in the dispatches of various correspondents, correspond-ents, that the German dead "carpeted" "car-peted" the Anzio beachhead and now we hear, from the same source, that bodies of German soldiers sol-diers were "piled up like cord-wood." Is it any wonder that Americans, Ameri-cans, after reading these news dispatches, dis-patches, conclude that Germans are being beaten to death on the Anzio beachhead? Is it strange that, following this news, the American who looks at a map of the Anzio region is amazed to find that the Allied army has barely maintained its lines? Much the same comment applies ap-plies to the story from London, telling how the Russians are slipping slip-ping through "cracked German defenses" in the Ukraine. The reader is not supposed to remember remem-ber that German defenses have been regularly "cracked" in the past three or four months. The succession of "grave threats" that have imperiled the Germans in Russia, in the columns of the experts, is almost enough to persuade Americans that the war is over and there is nothing much left to be done except to frame the terms of peace.